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26 of fear and of hope: all of these are cultural practices which have found their (often unpublished, often forgotten) expression in migrant testimonies. To find, collect, research, and analyse such testimonies is an important task for all of us who are interested in the interpretation of culture as a process – in movement, dynamic, fragmented, ever-changing, and depending on the free- dom of the individual. Mobile culture Studies will continue to explore this field. Extended Abstract of: Joachim Schlör, ‘Die Schiffsreise als Übergangserfahrung in Migrationsprozessen’, Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 1, 2015, 9-22. <http://unipub.uni-graz.at/mcsj> Author’s affiliation Prof. Dr. Joachim Schlör, University of Southampton, Avenue campus, highfield, Southampton SO17 1Bf, United Kingdom J.Schloer @ soton.ac.uk