Through reflections on the importance of the connection between biography and research, this book considers the influence of scholars' experiences of migration on their careers, highlighting the importance of reflexivity and subjectivity as assets, and positioning the researcher's experience at the
Migrant Scholars Researching Migration
✍ Scribed by Marco Gemignani;Yolanda Hernndez-Albjar;Jana Sldkov;; Yolanda Hernández-Albújar; Jana Sládková
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 247
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
Through reflections on the importance of the connection between biography and research, this book considers the influence of scholars' experiences of migration on their careers, highlighting the importance of reflexivity and subjectivity as assets, and positioning the researcher's experience at the centre of the process of enquiry.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Foreword
Theoretical Introduction: Subjectivity, Reflexivity, and Affectivity as Research Processes
Introduction
Part I: Entanglements of Memories as Research
1 When we Migrate
2 My Poncho is a Flamenco Kimono
3 Wesearch:A Lao Research Scholar’s Experience Learning about and with her Southeast Asian American Community
4 The Process of Becoming: An Intimate and Retrospective Look at a 30-year Journey of Searching for a Home
5 Looking for Home: Reflections on an Artistic Process
Part II: Negotiating Belonging and Identities in Research
6 On not Seeing Oneself in the Migration Scholarship: Race and the Struggle for Belonging in the Indian Diaspora
7 In-between Places: Negotiating (Dis)advantage Across National Contexts
8 Going from Student to Immigrant to Citizen
9 Migration, Narratives, and Languages: Between Life and Work
10 Being a Transnational Language Teacher Educator and Researcher: Borderlands, Ideologies, and Liminal Identities
11 A Transatlantic Teacher Educator: My Life and Career Across two Countries and Languages
12 The Research Memoir of an Intra-EU Migrant who has become a Guest in a Settler Colonial State
Part III: Tensions of Power in Knowledge Production
13 Bewilderment and Illumination: Language as a Tool to Understand the Migrant Experience
14 Developing New Approaches, Stepping Beyond Categories: Transnationalism and Youth Mobility Trajectories in Migration Research
15 From the “Field” to the Stage: A Migration Story
16 Can Black Girls be Transnational?
17 From “Second-Generation Immigrant” to Sociologist of Migration
18 Keeping the Struggle Alive: A Methodologically Disobedient Essay
Conclusions: Towards New Ways of Knowing
Index
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