UID:
edoccha_9961276929702883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-031-41348-2
Series Statement:
IMISCOE Research Series
Content:
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?
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1: Between Critical Inquiry and Creative Writing -- 1.1 An Introduction -- 1.2 The Canadian Context -- 1.2.1 Multiculturalism as Official Policy in Canada -- 1.2.2 Visible Minority: Names and Labels and Their Impact on Identity-Making -- 1.2.3 The (Problematic) Politics of Representation -- 1.3 Narrative Braiding of the Experiential and the Scholarly Through Creative Writing -- 1.4 Methodologies for Exploring New Directions in Migration Research and Practice -- 1.5 Conceptual Framework -- 1.6 A Workshop Methodology for Writing -- 1.7 Key Themes -- 1.8 Negotiating Nation, Identity and Diversity -- 1.9 Navigation and Agency: The Journey of Migration -- 1.10 Integration -- 1.11 Exclusion, Xenophobia and Racism -- 1.12 Return and Re-migration -- 1.13 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Experiments and Interventions: Re-envisioning Qualitative Research Methods in Migration -- 2.1 Our Process, and Our Objectives … -- 2.2 Centering Methodology, Connecting the Dots Through Story -- 2.3 Blurring a Few Lines, Exploring New Approaches for 'Knowing' -- 2.4 Workshopping a Book Project, Using a Research Lens -- 2.5 Exploring Some in-Between Spaces, the Shape of Things to Come -- 2.6 Setting the Methodological Stage, Using a Storying Approach -- 2.7 Challenging Mainstream Narratives, Focusing on Self-Representation to Impact Action -- 2.8 Inversions and Disruptions in Our Experiential Journey, Leading to Paradigm Shifts -- 2.9 Qualitative Research and Truth Telling, Learning from Indigenous Research Methodologies -- 2.10 Confronting the 'Who You Are' Question Ethically, Approaches for Navigating Complexity and Power -- 2.11 Self-Representations, Self-Narrative Viewed Through the Lens of Narrative Inquiry.
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2.12 Re-Thinking the Normative, a 'Moving Stories' Paradigm for Crafting New, Mobile 'Immigrant Identities' -- 2.13 Using an Autoethnography Lens, Writing the Self -- 2.14 Concluding Reflections, and Pathways for Moving Forward… -- References -- Part II: Identity Negotiations, Othering the Self -- Chapter 3: How I Became an Alevi Muslim Woman -- Chapter 4: Kingston Blues -- 4.1 By Lake Ontario -- 4.2 Walking to the Isabel Bader Centre -- 4.3 Quality Time with Parents -- 4.4 Month of Qualms -- 4.5 Divine Encounters -- 4.6 From Elsewhere: "So Where Is Home?" and Other Questions -- Chapter 5: On Immigration, Religion and Home -- Part III: Am I a Work in Progress? -- Chapter 6: WIP (Work in Progress) -- 6.1 A Winter Scene -- 6.2 Fulfillment -- 6.3 La Main -- 6.4 Bilingualism, or a Linguistic Fight -- 6.5 The Kiss. Reflections on Love and Identity -- 6.6 La culpa en los tiempos del COVID-19 -- 6.7 Apsara -- Reference -- Chapter 7: Journey Through the Self -- 7.1 My Reflection -- 7.2 Thick 4c Hair -- 7.3 Shocked -- 7.4 To Be Black -- 7.5 Art Is a Language -- 7.6 Migration -- Chapter 8: My Journey as a Writer -- Part IV: An Ode to Our Loved Ones Far Away, Some Messages in a Bottle -- Chapter 9: My Taiwanese Mom, Peaches -- Chapter 10: Dear Bâbâjân -- Chapter 11: Guerrico -- 11.1 A Preamble -- 11.2 Chapter 1: Introduction -- 11.3 Chapter 2: Counsel -- 11.4 Chapter 3: Piety -- 11.5 Chapter 4: Understanding -- 11.6 Chapter 5: Wisdom -- 11.7 Chapter 6: Fortitude -- 11.8 Chapter 7: Fear of the Lord -- 11.9 Chapter 8: Knowledge -- 11.10 Conclusion -- Chapter 12: For DYee… Walking in These Shoes -- Part V: Border Trespassing, Citizenship as Process -- Chapter 13: Some Timeless and Contemporary Borders -- 13.1 You Lie in Wait, You Observe -- Chapter 14: Suitcases: A Story of Migration During the Pandemic -- Chapter 15: Eyes and 'I' -- 15.1 Having a Say.
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15.2 Molding Values -- 15.3 Learning English Together -- 15.4 A Foreigner, Perpetually -- 15.5 A Furry Collaborator -- 15.6 Having a Collective Say -- Part VI: Longings and Belongings, and the Idea of Home… -- Chapter 16: Trinidadian Trinkets -- 16.1 Hair -- 16.2 Nose -- 16.3 Soul -- Chapter 17: Making a Place for Our Selves: A Story About Longing, Relationships, and the Search for Home -- Chapter 18: Things Lost, Things Not Lost, and the Ones That Were Found on the Way -- Part VII: Histories, Stories, and Complicated Lives -- Chapter 19: Family Histories and Stories That Made Me -- Chapter 20: Immigrant Stories -- 20.1 Going Home (Twice) -- 20.1.1 I'm Going Home, Home Is Rio de Janeiro, Brasil -- 20.1.2 Neither Here or There -- 20.1.3 I'm Going Home, Home Is Vancouver, Canada -- Chapter 21: My PhD Life, and Connecting the Dots Between Here and There… -- 21.1 An Intro and a Disclaimer… -- 21.2 Part One: Preamble -- 21.3 Part Two: Backstory: A Tribute to John Paul Lederach's The Moral Imagination -- 21.4 Part Three: Revealing an Epilogue of Sorts -- Reference -- Chapter 22: The Research Memoir of an Intra-EU Migrant Who Has Become a Guest in a Settler Colonial State -- 22.1 A Short Introduction -- 22.2 Why Did I Study Migration? -- 22.3 From Xenophobia to Irregular Migration -- 22.4 A Return Migrant -- 22.5 A Migrant Mother or a Mother of Migrant Children? -- 22.6 Too Much Mobility? -- 22.7 A 'White' European Migrant in a Settler Colonial State? -- References -- Part VIII: Reflections, Conclusions, and New Beginnings -- Chapter 23: Pandemic Thoughts: Life in the Times of COVID-19 -- 23.1 My 2020 Pandemic Summer: Long Days of Mothering -- 23.2 Believe Me, I Had Covid -- 23.3 Putting My Longing Into Perspective -- 23.4 One Cup at a Time -- 23.5 My COVID Diary -- 23.6 When a Hug Could Be a Death Sentence: Living in the Age of COVID-19.
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23.7 In A Way, We're All Connected -- 23.8 2020: The Year of Stormy Stillness -- 23.9 The COVID-19 Sidebar -- 23.10 Five Words, or the Story of How We Lived Through 2020 -- 23.10.1 Guilt -- 23.10.2 Resourcefulness -- 23.10.3 Cooking -- 23.10.4 Zooming -- 23.10.5 Change -- References -- Chapter 24: Becoming Through Story: The Relational Processes of Writing and Creating the StOries Project -- 24.1 The 'Becoming' of This Chapter: A Reflexive (Diffractive?) Background -- 24.2 Why (Not) 'Fieldnotes'? -- 24.3 From 'Belonging' to 'Becoming' -- 24.4 Becoming Authors, Becoming Vocal: Reflections from the StOries Project -- 24.4.1 Our Meaningful Objects -- 24.5 An Ending That's Still Becoming… -- Appendix -- References.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-031-41347-4
Language:
English
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