Migration and Identity through Creative Writing StOries: Strangers to Ourselves /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kumar, Alka (Editor), Triandafyllidou, Anna (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series,
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Emigration and immigration > Government policy.; Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.; Human Migration.; Migration Policy.; Sociology of Migration.
• Online Access: Link to Metadata

Summary

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; isit 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?

Physical Description

XIII, 333 p. 1 illus. online resource.

ISBN

9783031413483

ISSN

2364-4095

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-41348-3

Access

Open Access