Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers

Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2598-5
Verlag: HSRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Paperback

Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers develops an argument about how individual migrants, coming from four continents and diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, are in many ways affected by a violent categorisation that is often nihilistic, insistently racial, and continuously significant in the organization of society. The book also examines how relative privilege and storytelling act as instruments for these migrants to negotiate meanings and make their lives in this particular context. This edited collection is based on a collaboration of humanities and social science scholars with individual immigrants, who engaged in narrative life-story research as their guiding methodology and applied various disciplinary analytical lenses. Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers provides a collection of diverse life stories and migratory experiences, and contributes diverse theoretical insights into the understanding of social identification during migration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel

Über Autor(innen)

Jonatan Kurzwelly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, University of Göttingen. While working on this book, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in anthropology at the University of the Free State, where he is currently affiliated as a research fellow. His research and writing explore different aspects of personal and social identities. Jonatan is also interested in the study of nationalism, sensory and bodily perception, experimental and collaborative research methods, and the philosophy of social sciences. He is a nomadic academic migrant who defines himself as having two citizenships and no nationality.

Luis Escobedo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice, University of the Free State. Formerly a visiting lecturer at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico, he is currently co-conducting fieldwork in Transylvania on the persisting class/ethnicity correlation in Roma/non-Roma relations in Romania. In his next project he will follow the footprints made by a brave migrant across Central and North America. A citizen of Peru and resident of Romania, Luis has worked and studied in Austria, Germany, Mexico, Poland, South Africa and the United States over the past 20 years.