Migrant Scholars Researching Migration (eBook, PDF)

Reflexivity, Subjectivity and Biography in Research
Redaktion: Gemignani, Marco; Sládková, Jana; Hernández-Albújar, Yolanda

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000968194
• Artikelnr.: 69026031

Autorenporträt

Marco Gemignani is Associate Professor/Reader in the Psychology Department at Universidad Loyola in Seville, Spain, where he specializes in qualitative methodologies, clinical community psychology, and cultural psychology. He is a former president of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology and actively collaborates with numerous qualitative journals, associations, and research centers in psychology. His interests are in innovative critical methodologies and narrativeconstructivist psychotherapies, which he applies mostly in the field of migration studies. His most recent research projects concern transnational families, collective traumatic memories, and the psychosocial dimensions of the irregularization of migration. Yolanda Hernández-Albújar works at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, in Seville, where she teaches courses in Cultural Anthropology, Migration, and Gender. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and a master¿s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. She explores, from a cultural perspective, issues of identity, migration, and gender. She specializes in qualitative and visual methodologies and collaborates with various journals and associations. She is now the principal investigator in two projects regarding migrants in Latin America. Jana Sládková is an Associate Professor of critical social psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA. She is a qualitative researcher with expertise in narrative inquiry. Her focus of inquiry is on migration issues of unauthorized migrants, and racial/ethnic diversity and inclusion in higher education in the United States. She is the author of Journeys of Undocumented Honduran Migrants to the United States and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Her latest projects include Participatory Action Research with adult immigrant English learners in Massachusetts and celebrating Latinx communities in New England, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on contributors
Foreword
CECILIA MENJÍVAR
Foreword
KENNETH J. GERGEN
Introduction
MARCO GEMIGNANI, YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ-ALBÚJAR, AND JANA SLÁDKOVÁ
Theoretical Introduction: Subjectivity, Reflexivity, and Affectivity as
Research Processes
MARCO GEMIGNANI, YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ-ALBÚJAR, AND JANA SLÁDKOVÁ
PART I
Entanglements of Memories as Research
1. When we migrate
ANDREEA DECIU RITIVOI
2. My poncho is a flamenco kimono
FERNANDO IWASAKI
3. Wesearch: A Lao research scholar's experience learning about and with
her Southeast Asian American community
PHITSAMAY S. UY
4. The process of becoming: An intimate and retrospective look at a 30-year
journey of searching for a home
VERONICA MONTES
5. Looking for home: Reflections on an artistic process
PAVEL ROMANIKO
PART II
Negotiating belonging and identities in research
1. On not seeing oneself in the migration scholarship: Race and the
struggle for belonging in the Indian diaspora
SUNIL BHATIA
1. In-between places: Negotiating (dis)advantage across national
contexts
NIDA BIKMEN
1. Going from student to immigrant to citizen
ERNESTO CASTAÑEDA
1. Migration, narratives, and languages: Between life and work
ANNA DE FINA
1. Being a transnational language teacher educator and researcher:
Borderlands, ideologies, and liminal identities
BEDRETTIN YAZAN
1. A transatlantic teacher educator: My life and career across two
countries and languages
JOHANNA TIGERT
1. The research memoir of an intra-EU migrant who has become a guest in
a settler colonial state
ANNA TRIANDAFFYLIDOU
PART III
Tensions of power in knowledge production
1. Bewilderment and illumination: Language as a tool to understand the
migrant experience
LUKA LUCI¿
1. Developing new approaches, stepping beyond categories:
transnationalism and youth mobility trajectories in migration
research
VALENTINA MAZZUCATO
1. From the "field" to the stage: A migration story
CAROLINA ALONSO BEJARANO
1. Can Black girls be transnational?
NAFEESAH ALLEN
1. From "second-generation immigrant" to sociologist of migration
MARCO MARTINIELLO
1. Keeping the struggle alive: A methodologically disobedient essay
ALI KONYALI
Conclusions: Towards New Ways of Knowing
MARCO GEMIGNANI, YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ-ALBÚJAR, AND JANA SLÁDKOVÁ
Index