Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers : : Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa / / / ed. by Luis Escobedo, Jonatan Kurzwelly.

Involving immigrants as well as scholars and based on narrative life-story research, contributes important theoretical insights into the nature of social identification during the migration experience.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • 1. Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a postapartheid city
  • 2. Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories
  • 3. From the mainland and from the colony: Essay on the life narrative of a Portuguese migrant in Bloemfontein
  • 4. Becoming white: The story of being assimilated into the white habitus of Bloemfontein
  • 5. Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum
  • 6. The shifting social relations and national identity practices of a Peruvian migrant in South Africa's heartland
  • 7. 'Do you miss kimchi?': A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration
  • 8. Written writing: An account of the emergence of an(other) academic author
  • 9. Transitioning capitals in international student mobility
  • 10. Migration change processes of a migrant couple: A social morphogenetic approach
  • 11. The migrant as architect of his own comfort
  • About the contributors
  • Index