Migrant Stances Among Cultures: "My Erasmus Adventure" Digital Stories

• Main Authors: Gökçe Zeybek Kabakcı, Burcu Şimşek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hacettepe University 2015-06-01
• Series: Momentdergi
• Subjects: dijital hikâye anlatımı; yükseköğretim; erasmus değişim programı; uluslararası öğrenci göçü/hareketliliği; kültürlerarası iletişim
• Online Access: http://www.momentdergi.org/index.php/momentdergi/article/view/94

<p>Erasmus Mobility Program provides the funds for university students to visit higher education institutions around European Union and program countries, taking credits to transfer to their home institutions. Although the main objective of the program seems to provide the opportunities for credit transfers between institutions, the primary aim is to contribute to the construction of a collective European identity while enhancing intercultural encounters. Fulfilling the objective of constructing a collective European identity is open to questioning while it is obvious that the program is successful to provide opportunities for intercultural encounters. In this article, we examine the narratives of students who used Erasmus mobility program for studying abroad and then reflected their experiences in one of the three digital storytelling workshops we facilitated under the name “My Erasmus Adventure” since 2011. The narratives about student mobilities that are recently introduced in migration studies are taken into consideration in terms of intercultural encounter basis.</p>