Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing: Reimagining Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge, and Power

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unsettling Migrant Narratives
	Locating Literary Anthropology
	Reading and Researching Different Genres
	Migration Narrative as Autoethnography
	Emplacements and Displacements
	Unsettling Lives and Landscapes Through Migrant Narratives
	Notes
	References
1 Exploring The Immigrant Novel: Blurred Genres, Embodied Identities, and the Unsettling Migration Experience
	Prelude About Process: Fiction as Inspiration
	Jean Kwok: Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown
	Oscar Hijuelos: Our House in the Last World
	Ibi Zoboi: American Street
	By Way of Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2 “I Dream of Cabo Verde Every Night Now”: Reflections On/from Writers in the Diaspora
	Issues of Voice
	Cape Verde
		Brief Historical Sketch
		Writings of Diasporic Cape Verdeans
		Diaspora
		Complicated Racialized Histories
	Who Showed You That Faraway Road?
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
3 “The Love of the People – My Reward”: Sam Selvon’s Legacy in Caribbean London
	Fiction and Anthropology
	The Windrush Generation
		The Lonely Londoners
	Selvon’s Legacy
	New Experiences: Descendants
	Superdiversity Revisited
	References
4 Imaginaries of Belonging in Middle-Class Relocation Narratives: The French in London
	Introduction: Middle-Class Relocation and Elective Belonging
	Being French in London: Three Books, Three Voices, Three Visions
	A Concluding Note On Methods: Ethnography, Fiction, and Memoir
	Notes
	References
5 Capturing Comedy, and Tragedy: Emplacement Strategies in Migrant Writing From Sweden
	The Backstory
	From Accidental Writer to Professional
	Hitting the Right Spot With Wit and Satire
	A Turn to Tragedy
	The View From Iran
	A Variety of Emplacement Strategies
	Acknowledgment
	Notes
	References
6 Migrants’ Self-Narrations as Cultural Critique: Exploring Political Subjectivities Through Asylum Seekers’ and Returnees’ Narratives and Literature
	Introduction
	“Journey of Misery”: The Horrors of the Undocumented Trip to Europe Between Adventure and Cautionary Tale
	“An Expensive Love”: Looking at the Politicization of Migration From a Migrant Perspective
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
7 The Anthropologist as Observant Reader of Migrant Literature: The Case of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
	Introduction
	Sastra PPM
		The Potentiality of Creative Writing
		PPM as Writers
		Contextual Factors
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
8 At the Unsettling Limits of Collaborative Life Writing: A Memoir of an Ethnography-Memoir
	Anthropology of Ethnographic Collaboration
	Anthropology of Friendship
	A One-Sided Collaboration
	Cultures of Friendship and Reciprocity
	The Ethical Predicaments of Collaboration
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
9 Scrolling Through Unheard Voices: Unaccompanied Child Migrant Narratives On Social Media
	Methodological Considerations
	Two Stories
		Kaameh
		Ali
	What Can Social Media Narratives Do?
	Notes
	References
Afterword: Migrants, Anthropologists, and Writing
	Who Counts as a Migrant?
	What Does Writing Entail?
	Notes
	References
Index