Migrant Narratives

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community.

1. Analysing migrant narratives as an ethnographic project: Academic representation as storytelling Part I: Scripted narratives - Continuities and ruptures 2. Narratives of absence: Making sense of loss and liminality in the post-war Bosnian diaspora 3. Home at last: Narrating community and belonging through retirement migration to Spain 4. Homecoming as exile? Experiences of rupture and belonging Part II: Agency - Resourceful victimhood 5. Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narrative 6. "When you win, you are a German, when you lose, you are a foreigner": Claiming position beyond the meritocratic and discriminatory migration discourse 7."None of these are jokes, it's just my life...": Migrant narratives and female agency in Shazia Mirza's comedy 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? 9. Reluctant stories: Silences in women's narratives of war and exile 10. Planting the colonial narrative: The migrant letters of James Taylor in Ceylon Part IV: Collective narratives - Stories as a way of doing community 11. The "Titanic legacy": Collective narratives as resources of diasporic communities 12. Migrant ethnography on YouTube: "GermanLifeStyle" and the German "refugee crisis" 13. The migrant storyteller: Mnemonic and narrative strategies in migrant stories