Introduction: Post-Socialism, Migration and Memory in Britain and Beyond

This special issue – as part of the Post-Socialist Britain? project – advances interdisciplinary engagement with post-socialism as an analytical concept and empirical point of investigation within Memory Studies. Across the essays in this special issue, post-socialism in Britain appears not as a legacy imported from elsewhere, but as something that is created and reproduced through a complex set of diasporic relationships, everyday encounters and infrastructures that connect migrants, the British public, and competing memory regimes. The contributions also expand our understanding of post-socialism as an analytical concept applicable across mnemonic contexts beyond the UK. Authors surface how memories, identities, and political projects are made in and through relations: across diasporas and borders; between local, national, transnational and infrastructural scales; and via entangled temporalities. Through this, relationality highlights both solidarity as well as uneven power dynamics.