This book brings fresh perspectives to the anthropology of migration. It focuses on what migrants write and how anthropologists may incorporate insights gained from engagement with this writing into research methods and writing practices.
This book brings fresh perspectives to the anthropology of migration. It focuses on what migrants write and how anthropologists may incorporate insights gained from engagement with this writing into research methods and writing practices.
The volume includes a range of contributions from leading scholars in the field, all organized around a striking set of questions about the conditions in which migrant narratives are written and translated, the audiences for which they are intended, the genres and media through which they are disseminated, and what such stories include or leave out. The contributors to this volume demonstrate an innovative shift in anthropological methods by showing how fiction and nonfiction, graphic memoir and autoethnography, song lyrics, as well as social media posts and images unsettle the power dynamics in the study of migration narrative.
This book will serve as important supplemental reading for courses on migration, literary anthropology, ethnographic methods, and sociocultural anthropology in general. Its interdisciplinary perspective will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students with interests in migration, narrative, and anthropological writing genres.
Introduction: Unsettling Migrant Narratives
1. Exploring the Immigrant
Novel: Blurred Genres, Embodied Identities, and the Unsettling Migration
Experience
2. I Dream of Cabo Verde Every Night Now: Reflections on/from
Writers in the Diaspora 3.The love of the people my reward: Sam Selvon's
Legacy in Caribbean London
4. Imaginaries of Belonging in Middle-Class
Relocation Narratives: The French in London
5. Capturing Comedy, and Tragedy:
Emplacement Strategies in Migrant Writing from Sweden
6. Migrants
Self-Narrations as Cultural Critique: Exploring Political Subjectivities
through Asylum Seekers' and Returnees Narratives and Literature 7.The
Anthropologist as Observant Reader of Migrant Literature: The Case of
Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
8. At the Unsettling Limits of
Collaborative Life Writing: A Memoir of An Ethnography-Memoir
9. Scrolling
through Unheard Voices: Unaccompanied Child Migrant Narratives on Social
Media; Afterword: Migrants, Anthropologists, and Writing
Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.
Helena Wulff is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.
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