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

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

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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...

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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.
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Table of 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 Bâbâjân (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. Eyesand '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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