Migrant Narratives (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword
	Note
Acknowledgements
1 Analysing Migrant Narratives as an Ethnographic Project: Academic Representation as Storytelling
	How this Book Was Conceptualised and Written
	On Making Choices – Creating the Ethnographic Story
	The Ethnographer’s Presence in Re-Told Narratives
	The Ethics of Academic Storytelling
	Reconciling the Contradictions in the Writing of the Ethnographic Narrative
	Some Notes On How to Read this Book
	Bibliography
Part I Scripted Narratives: Continuities and Ruptures
	2 Narratives of Absence: Making Sense of Loss and Liminality in the Post-War Bosnian Diaspora
		Narrative – A Story of the Disappeared Husband
		Methodological Reflections – Situating the Narrative Within Ethnography
		Analysis – Liminality of Disappearance and the Open-Endedness of the Narrative
		Notes
		Bibliography
	3 Home at Last: Narrating Community and Belonging Through Retirement Migration to Spain
		Introduction
		Narrative – Constructing Community and Belonging Through Retirement Migration to Spain
		Methodological Reflections – Epistemological, Methodological and Analytical Premises
			Analysing Mabel’s Narrative
			Narrative, Identity and Positioning
			Narrative and Plot
		Analysis – Locating Unique Biographies in Theoretical and Structural Contexts
		Note
		Bibliography
	4 Homecoming as Exile?: Experiences of Rupture and Belonging
		Narrative
		Methodological Reflections
		Analysis
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II Agency: Resourceful Victimhood
	5 Female Agency, Resourceful Victimhood and Heroines in Migrant Narrative
		Narrative – Hatice’s Story
		Methodological Reflections and Positionality
			Methodological Reflections
			Positionality and Communicative Roles
		Analysis – Narrative Positioning, Construction of Agency and Resourceful Victimhood
			Resourceful Victimhood: “How to Make a Deal”
			Active Women, Passive Men: “Why Women Took Over”
			The Making of Migrant Heroines: “Girls, Get a Job and Make the Best of It”
			Counter Narrative and Social Positioning
		Bibliography
	6 “When You Win, You Are a German, When You Lose, You Are a Foreigner”: Claiming Position Beyond the Meritocratic and Discriminatory Migration Discourse
		Narrative – “Milked Like a Cow”: Labour Migrants From Turkey in Central Europe
		Reflection – A Narrative Analysis of Remittance Practices in the Context of the Labour Migration Regime in Central Europe
			Exploring Remittances By Applying Narrative Analysis
		Analysis – Migration and Remittance Narratives as Ways of Sense-Making in the Face of Diverging Cross-Border Expectations
			Techniques of Migration and Remittance Narratives: Collectivity and Reassurance
			Re-enacting Dialogues and the Metaphor of the Carrying Migrant Worker
			Being “A Good Person” as a Way of Sense-Making in the Context of Cross-Border Dilemmas
		Notes
		Bibliography
	7 “None of These Are Jokes, It’s Just My Life…”: Migrant Narratives and Female Agency in Shazia Mirza’s Comedy
		Introduction
		Narrative – Interview With Shazia Mirza On the Jonathan Ross Show
		Methodological Reflections – Ways of Narrating the Self
		Analysis – Comedy as Strategy
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part III Silences and Voids in Gendered Narratives: What Can and Cannot Be Told
	8 The Syrian Taxi Driver: Migrant Narratives Or Narratives of a Researcher?
		Narrative – The Syrian Taxi Driver
			The Damascus Experience
			The Lebanon Experience
			The Saudi Arabia Experience
			The Experience Back Home
			Epilogue
		Methodological Reflections – A Male Friendship and a Migrant’s Life Story
		Analysis – A Geographic Life Story of a Migrant Hero?
			The Narrative, a Biographic Migrant’s Story
			Gendered Storytelling
			What the Storyteller Abu Khalil Wanted to Be Remembered
			What the Researcher Anton Escher Intended to Re-Tell?
			Résumé Between Silences and Voids, a Story That Could Be True?
			Epilogue of the Epilogue
		Bibliography
	9 Reluctant Stories: Silences in Women’s Narratives of War and Exile
		Narrative – A Woman’s Narrative of War and Exile
			War and Flight
			Rebuilding Life in a New Country
			Being a Refugee in Sweden
			Epilogue
		Methodological Reflections – Eliciting Reluctant Stories
		Analysis – Silences and Voids
			The Silences of War and Victimhood
			Restorative Silence: From Victim to Survivor
		Bibliography
	10 Planting the Colonial Narrative: The Migrant Letters of James Taylor in Ceylon
		Introduction: Brief Historical Note
		Narrative – James Taylor’s Impressions of the Indian Rebellion, 1857
		Methodological Reflections – The Use of Migrant Correspondence
		Analysis – The Indian Rebellion and Emotions
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part IV Collective Narratives: Stories as a Way of Doing Community
	11 The “Titanic Legacy”: Collective Narratives as Resources of Diasporic Communities
		Narrative – Did You Know About the Link Between Kfarsghab and the Titanic?
		Methodological Reflections – Narrative Repertoires of “Communities of Practice”
		Analysis – Elements, Effects and (Re)production of Collective Narratives
			Crucial Elements of Collective Narratives: Temporal/Spatial Framing, Role Models and Implicit Imperatives
			Community-building Effects of the “Titanic Legacy”: Solidarity Linked to an Imagined Ethnicity
			The Dynamic (Re)production of the “Titanic Legacy”: Storytelling By Committed Community Librarians and Other Practitioners
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
	12 Migrant Ethnography On YouTube: “GermanLifeStyle” and the German “Refugee Crisis”
		Narrative – Writing Syrian Lives: From Xenophobia to Conversation
		Methodological Reflections – Syrian Lives On YouTube: From Ethnography to Autoethnography
		Analysis – Autoethnography as “Doing Community”: Resisting the Xenophobic Gaze
		Bibliography
	13 The Migrant Storyteller: Mnemonic and Narrative Strategies in Migrant Stories
		Time
		Memory
			Silences and Memory Gaps
			Efficient Storage and Retrieval
			Spatial and Sensory Paintings – Scenes
		Narrative Techniques
			“Where Do You Come From?”
			Justifying Migration: Stories About Personal Growth, Learning and Success
			Resilience and Agency
			Closure: The Importance of Having a Coda
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Index