Migration and Identity through Creative Writing StOries: Strangers to Ourselves

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2024
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration; Public administration; A story-ing approach in migration; Alternative methodologies in migration studies; Centering methodology, connecting the dots through story; COVID-19 times and personal migration stories; Creative and autoethnographic narratives in migration; Critical and creative writing in migration; Critical pedagogy framework for writing migration; Experiential and creative migration writing; Exploring new approaches for `knowing' in migration; Hybrid and multi-genre migration collection from Canada; Negotiating nation, identity and diversity; New directions in migration research and practice; Producing knowledge `differently' in migration; Qualitative research and truth-telling in migration; Self-representation and auto-narratives in migration; Storytelling, narrative enquiry, lived experience; Teaching training migration project at CERC, TMU; Using indigenous research methods to decolonise migration; Workshopping as methodology in migration studies
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• ISBN: 978-3-031-41348-3; 9783031413476; 9783031413483
• Access: Open Access

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?