Migrant narratives: storytelling as agency, belonging and community

Analysing migrant narratives as an ethnographic project : academic representation as storytelling / Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich -- Narratives of absence : making sense of loss and liminality in the post-war Bosnian diaspora / Laura Huttunen -- Home at last: Narrating community and belonging through retirement migration to Spain / Anya Ahmed -- Homecoming as exile? Experiences of rupture and belonging / Anastasia Christou -- Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narrative / Silke Meyer -- "When you win, you are a German, when you lose, you are a foreigner" : claiming position beyond the meritocratic and discriminatory migration discourse / Claudius Ströhle -- "None of these are jokes, it's just my life..." : migrant narratives and female agency in Shazia Mirza's comedy / Ulla Rathheiser -- The Syrian taxi driver : migrant narratives or narratives of a researcher? / Anton Jakob Escher -- Reluctant stories : silences in women's narratives of war and exile / Marita Eastmond -- Planting the colonial narrative : the migrant letters of James Taylor in Ceylon / Angela McCarthy -- The "Titanic legacy" : collective narratives as resources of diasporic communities / Marie Johanna Karner -- Migrant ethnography on YouTube : "GermanLifeStyle" and the German "refugee crisis" / Mita Banerjee -- The migrant storyteller : mnemonic and narrative strategies in migrant stories / Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich and Silke Meyer.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Analysing Migrant Narratives as an Ethnographic Project: Academic Representation as Storytelling -- How this Book Was Conceptualised and Written -- On Making Choices - Creating the Ethnographic Story -- The Ethnographer's Presence in Re-Told Narratives -- The Ethics of Academic Storytelling -- Reconciling the Contradictions in the Writing of the Ethnographic Narrative -- Some Notes On How to Read this Book -- Bibliography -- Part I Scripted Narratives: Continuities and Ruptures -- 2 Narratives of Absence: Making Sense of Loss and Liminality in the Post-War Bosnian Diaspora -- Narrative - A Story of the Disappeared Husband -- Methodological Reflections - Situating the Narrative Within Ethnography -- Analysis - Liminality of Disappearance and the Open-Endedness of the Narrative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Home at Last: Narrating Community and Belonging Through Retirement Migration to Spain -- Introduction -- Narrative - Constructing Community and Belonging Through Retirement Migration to Spain -- Methodological Reflections - Epistemological, Methodological and Analytical Premises -- Analysing Mabel's Narrative -- Narrative, Identity and Positioning -- Narrative and Plot -- Analysis - Locating Unique Biographies in Theoretical and Structural Contexts -- Note -- Bibliography -- 4 Homecoming as Exile?: Experiences of Rupture and Belonging -- Narrative -- Methodological Reflections -- Analysis -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Agency: Resourceful Victimhood -- 5 Female Agency, Resourceful Victimhood and Heroines in Migrant Narrative -- Narrative - Hatice's Story -- Methodological Reflections and Positionality -- Methodological Reflections.