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Subject(s)

• Emigration and immigration in literature [Browse]
• Literature—Minority authors [Browse]
• Creative writing [Browse]

Editor

• Kumar, Alka [Browse]
• Triandafyllidou, Anna [Browse]

Series

IMISCOE research series [More in this series]

Summary note

This open access book brings together storytelling and self-narrative, creative writing and narrative enquiry to explore a variety of topics in migration from an experiential lens. The volume is hybrid and multi-genre as it contains both scholarly chapters grounded in academic perspectives, as well as personal essays and creative non-fiction. In addition to critical reflections on key migration topics and concepts like, identity and diversity, integration and agency, transnationalism and return the scholarly chapters also propose a particular methodology for workshopping migration narratives, and writing about (personal) lived experiences through iterations of scientific reflection, narrative enquiry, and creative imagination. The book explores the potential of a new conceptual paradigm and methodological process to learn more, and also `differently, about the migration experience. Finally, this volume asks a bigger question too how do we define the boundaries of research; is it possible to entirely separate the spatial, temporal and methodological parameters in which projects are developed and pursued; and how can the specifics of these multiple contexts contribute to shaping the knowledge being produced?

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Part 1. Setting the Stage
• 1. Between Critical Inquiry and Creative Writing (Anna Triandafyllidou and Alka Kumar)
• 2. Experiments and Interventions: Re-envisioning Qualitative Research Methods in Migration (Alka Kumar)
• Part 2. Identity Negotiations, Othering the Self
• 3. How I Became an Alevi Muslim Woman (Esra Ari)
• 4. Kingston Blues (Ozlem Atar)
• 5. On Immigration, Religion and Home (Bibi Baksh)
• Part 3. Am I a work in progress?
• 6. WIP (Work in progress) (Jenny Osorio)
• 7. Journey Through the Self (Chelsea Nyomi Richards)
• 8. My Journey as a Writer (Owen Guo)
• Part 4. An Ode to our Loved Ones far away, some Messages in a Bottle
• 9. My Taiwanese Mom, Peaches (Galina Liou)
• 10. Dear Bbjn (Sadaf Khajeh)
• 11. Guerrico (Melanie Zuzarte)
• 12. For DYee Walking in These Shoes (Christian Hui)
• Part 5. Border Trespassing
• 13. Some Timeless and Contemporary Borders (Arun Kumar Rajavel)
• 14. Suitcases: A Story of Migration During the Pandemic (Nabila Kazmi)
• 15. Eyes and I (Karen Young)
• Part 6. Longings and Belongings, and the Idea of Home
• 16. Trinidadian Trinkets (Sarah Ostapchuk)
• 17. Making a Place for Our Selves: A Story about Longing, Relationships, and the Search for Home (Natasha Damiano)
• 18. Things Lost, Things Not Lost, and the Ones That Were Found on the Way (Negin Saheb Javaher)
• Part 7. Histories, Stories and Complicated Lives
• 19. Family Histories and Stories that made me (Brianna Jennings)
• 20. Immigrant Stories (Thabata Costa)
• 21. My PhD life, and Connecting the Dots between Here and There. (Alka Kumar)
• 22. The Research Memoir of an Intra-EU Migrant who has become a Guest in a Settler Colonial State (Anna Triandafyllidou)
• Part 8. Reflections, Conclusions, and New Beginnings
• 23. Pandemic Thoughts: Life in the Times of COVID-19 (Esra Ari and Ozlem Atar)
• 24. Becoming through Story: The Relational Processes of Writing and Creating the StOries Project (Natasha Damiano).

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Other title(s)

StOries: strangers to ourselves

ISBN

• 9783031413476 (hardcover)
• 3031413474 (hardcover)

OCLC

1416662958

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