Full Description
Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal aspects of their experiences. In doing so, the authors examine a wide range of accounts of journeys to host countries and memories (or recreations) of "home". The spaces that migrants occupy (or not) in their new country; the spaces and times they share with local populations; and different conceptions of space and time across generations are also investigated, as are how feelings surrounding space and time are manifested within these different narratives and their affective-discursive practices.
Taking both a traditional, linear view of migration as well as a multilinear, multimodal approach, the book presents an in-depth investigation into the ways in which people inhabit multiple real and digital spaces.
Contents
Introduction. Narrating space and time in migration, Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra), Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra), and Mike Baynham (University of Leeds)
1. Settling Out of Place: Narratives of Housing and Strategies of Aging by a Ghanaian Migrant in the United States, Cati Coe (Rutgers University)
2. "We will be able to get there - what? - a life!" The Congolese in Kampala narrating migration through time and space, Ruslan Zaripov (University of Navarra)
3. Exile, time and gender: time negation and temporal projection among refugees from the Horn of Africa, Fabienne Le Houérou (CNRS- IREMAM-Aix-Marseille University)
4. UND wir sind weggelaufen: borders and walls in narratives of forced displacement. A study with Middle Eastern refugees' visual narratives in the German as a second language (DaZ) classroom, Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (Hamburg University)
5. Children's narratives about their journey from the Middle East to Hungary, Ildikó Schmidt (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
6. Families on the Move: Spacetimes in Narratives of Language Socialization within Transnational Multilingual Moroccan Families in Spain, Adil Moustaoui Srhir (Compultense University of Madrid)
7. Circumscribed transnational spaces: Moroccan immigrant women in rural Spain, Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra) and Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra)
8. The route from West Africa to Europe, the precariousness of life in Marie NDiaye's Three Strong Women, Odile Heynders (Tilburg University)
9. Tar or honey? Space and time of Moroccan migration in a video sketch comedy 'l-kamira la-kum', Mike Baynham (University of Leeds) and Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra)
10. Once a dancer, always a dancer: The story of Ahmad Joudeh, Jan Jaap de Ruiter (Tilburg University)
11. Digital Narratives of Syrian Political Dissidence in the Diaspora: Chronotopes of the Syrian Revolution and Transnational Grassroots Activism, Francesco L. Sinatora (The George Washington University)
