What do migrants bring with them when they migrate, and how are those items of memorabilia arranged into narratives of origin, migration, loss and identity? How are experiences of migration and Diaspora mediated from one generation to another? What is told and by whom? What is silenced and who is excluded from the right to remember? The focus of this preparatory paper is to chart how memory is arranged in the context of migration. The main aim is to bring forward the practice of the transition of people ? the arranging of memories and the transmission of a narrative that will serve coming generations with guidelines of how to live (how one is to remember ones origin, what that means to ones identity, how one is to behave as a member of an ethnic minority community, etc). More specifically, thus, the study will analyse how memory is arranged into a narrative of identity. Through the discussion of identity, key concepts (such as, authenticity and hybridity) will surface. The theoretical discussion will revolve around questions of nation, migration and gender, and the ethics of memory. An extended scholarship has illuminated the central role which women play in the creation and mediation of migration and ethnic-belonging narratives. Resting on such research, my study will contribute to a further discussion of the construction of narratives of identity. Narratives, as well as the components and composition of the narrative, are often the responsibility of women ? a responsibility that is transmitted from mothers to daughters.

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