Abstract

Memory, as a universal phenomenon, defines individuals’ existence and belonging. In the era of migration, displacement, and traveling, one individual’s belonging and memories take a shift from steadiness to movements across cultural, national, ethnic, and territorial borders, which eventually create a “transcultural” circumstance. This article aims to showcase different trajectories of migration memory addressing the newly emerged “transcultural turn” in the field of memory studies. The memoir Home in the World manifests the physical as well as the mental time–space travel of the author, Amartya Sen (an Indian economist and philosopher who moved from his birthplace Dhaka to Bengal, British India, and then to several international countries like United Kingdom and the United States), and how Sen’s memories have turned into transculturation through his settlement to various geographical locations. Therefore, by investigating the transformation of memories through the lens of global migration, this article will demonstrate through the prism of newly emerged memory studies that memory is not static but rather transcultural, which works as a process of change just like belonging is not a permanent condition for migrants but an ambivalent fluctuation.