Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

By: Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich and Anastasia Christou and Silke Meyer and Marie Johanna Karner and Jakob Escher, Jakob Escher

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Synopsis: With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as narrative analysis. Through close attention to the narrative, its performative aspects and its ruptures and silences, authors identify patterns and material in the fabric of such telling and retelling of stories that open up new perspectives on the migrant experience. This book develops a methodology of ‘dwelling with stories’ that allows for sustained and slow interrogation of the migrant experience and the accompanying decisions that shape narratives around mobility across borders. Its structure is innovative by emphasising the migrant voice and reflecting on the scholars’ positionality, while also offering new theoretical contributions that will advance the field of narrative analysis. The book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in a wide range of subject areas within the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, migration/refugee/diaspora studies and oral history.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781003804154
Related ISBNs:: 9780367637491, 9781003120520, 9780367637453
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/24/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Anastasia Christou, Silke Meyer, Marie Johanna Karner and Anton Jakob Escher
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
Edited by:: Anastasia Christou
Edited by:: Silke Meyer
Edited by:: Marie Johanna Karner
Edited by:: Anton Jakob Escher