Full Description
Narrative Inquiry of Displacement: Stories of Challenges, Change and Resilience describes a variety of displacement experiences in different cultures and contexts. The text uses narrative methodologies to share participant stories and explore the nature and effects of displacement.
Each chapter examines and theorises the narrative approach used to show the link between the data collection and the story, illustrating research decisions and analysis in action. The book presents a range of displacement stories, including migration, immigration, social and political displacement. The chapters also provide stories of adoptions, diaspora communities and people affected by apartheid and the Holocaust.
This volume is recommended for those working in qualitative inquiry and scholars of migration and refugee studies, providing immediate and theoretically nuanced accounts of displacement experiences globally.
Contents
Prologue
Chapter One: The story of the book and the chapters
Chapter Two: Navigating the terrain: A narrative inquiry typology
Part I: Stories of migration
Chapter Three: Adoption
Chapter Four: Reflections of absence: Genetic displacement and reconception among donor-conceived persons in California
Chapter Five: Gypsy, Roma, Traveller displacement
Part II: Stories of immigration
Chapter Six: International adoption and identity: Faith's story
Chapter Seven: Diaspora
Chapter Eight: A narrative inquiry of a home child: A generational story
Part III: Stories of political/social displacement
Chapter Nine: Doing displacement in and between Sudan and the United States: Navigating language, relationality and ideologies
Chapter Ten: Through the eyes of a Bo-Kaap womxn: A post-apartheid displacement narrative
Chapter Eleven: Holocaust resistance and survival: Recasting the refugee experience
Chapter Twelve: Friend or Foe? A narrative inquiry into the experiences of a Japanese internment survivor
Epilogue
Chapter Thirteen: Conclusion: How stories of displacement and narrative inquiry touch
