A bricolage of identifications: storying postmigrant belonging

Bromley, Roger

doi:10.1080/20004214.2017.1347474

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“…89 Postmigration avvisar tidigare tankar om nation, identitet och skillnad som statiska storheter, hävdar Roger Bromley i samma temanummer. 90 Det som enligt Bromley utmär ker berättelser om postmigration är att de, i likhet med Ahmads berättarjag tidigare, betonar nutid och framtid snarare än att vara förankrade i en "ursprungskultur", och att de efter hand överger en minoritetsposition för att bli en del av ett nationellt eller glo balt sammanhang. 91 Beskrivningarna har onekligen bäring i berättelserna, samtidigt som dessa rymmer rörelser och röster som även pekar åt andra håll.…”

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Arping

2022

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How is class depicted in Swedish contemporary literature, and what can it teach us about contemporary society? In Doing Class, literary scholar Åsa Arping tries new pathways into the broad, mainly realistic Swedish novels of recent decades. She finds class-coded actions, thoughts and emotions even outside the traditional working-class literature, and explores how the story of class deepens when it is put into dialogue with other categories, such as gender, age and ethnicity/racialization. Through reflections on the last twenty years of prose publishing, from Torbjörn Flygt's Underdog (2001) to Donia Saleh's Ya Leila (2020), the study shows how literature shapes and discusses the increasingly obscure class concept, where perceptions of work, identity, lifestyle and welfare state is rapidly changing.

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“…Her research article takes the urban condition as its focal point and calls for new understandings of urbanity in terms of migration. Meanwhile, Bromley (2017: 36) warns against too frequent use of the term belonging, and Aboulela’s stories attest to the complexities involved with it. As her stories show, belonging and identity can also mean different things across the generational divide and do not always necessarily relate to ethnic, national, or racial concerns (Moslund and Petersen, 2019: 72).…”

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“…It also aspires to focus explicitly on trajectories relating to the future. Postmigration, as outlined by Roger Bromley, is not as a concept solely tied to temporal distinctions, but is also ideological in its attempts to construct “a new set of emergent spaces of plurality” (Bromley, 2017: 39). The utopian dimension of postmigration has thus also been noted (Moslund et al, 2019: 228).…”

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Toward postmigrant realities in Leila Aboulela’sElsewhere, Home

Englund

2020

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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The number of migration narratives published in recent years in the form of short stories, novels, poetry, and nonfiction has been considerable, particularly by writers connected with the African continent. Previous studies on this body of work have included investigations of identity and otherness, transnational connections, and cosmopolitan aspirations. Despite this abundance of perspectives on the literature, there have also been urgent calls for new ways of theorizing migration (Fasselt, 2019; Kraler, 2011; Edmunds, 2006). Postmigration is just such an intervention, a concept that aims to go beyond previous meanings of migrant and migration, to critique instances of othering and the gap between the margins and the majority society (Römhild, 2017), and to focus explicitly on trajectories relating to the future. Postmigration, as outlined by Roger Bromley (2017: 39), is not a concept solely tied to temporal distinctions, but is also ideological in its attempts to construct “a new set of emergent spaces of plurality”. The present article argues that Leila Aboulela’s short story collection Elsewhere, Home (2018) manifests such spaces, particularly through its representations and negotiations of gender, family practices, generation, and religious belief and practice. My analysis shows that Aboulela subverts tropes regarding gendered and religious identity and mobility. Elsewhere, Home is no longer primarily occupied with the displacement of individual characters but moves toward seeing migration as interaction and participation instead of integration (Moslund and Petersen, 2019), and as transcultural (Petersen and Schramm, 2017) instead of transnational.

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“…Instead, mobile peoples can be understood in terms of processes of becoming, involving complex and heterogeneous forms of expressions, for instance enactments of local cultures merged with global media culture and symbols. As argued by Bromley (2017), one of the issues when analysing expressions of post-migration, is the notion of "the presumed commonality, or identity, between always existing national subjects, a fundamental aspect of subjectivity at the level of the symbolic, the cultural, the unconscious" (Bromley, 2017, p. 38).…”

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“…In this sense, citizenship is made through an unequal distribution of access and services, based on social class or ethnicity (Yiftachel, 2006). Following Bromley this can be seen as a cogent reality where cultural difference becomes part of rationalising segregation (Bromley, 2017). As such, home belongings that draw lines of separations between cultures.…”

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Becoming Citizen: Spatial and Expressive Acts when Strangers Move In

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Samson

2018

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This article examines the conditions and expressions of how refugees in Denmark become citizens. Through visual and collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, which took place during 2017, the case study follows the everyday life of an Eritrean community living in a former retirement home in the town of Hørsholm. The article investigates how becoming citizen can be understood as mediatised, spatial and expressive negotiations between the refugees and the local society. We look at the conditions of becoming citizen through the local framing of the Eritrean community—understood as political, social, cultural and material framing conditions. We draw on Engin Isin’s concept of performative citizenship (Isin, 2017), and we suggest how everyday life and becoming potentially hold the capacity to re-formulate and add to the understanding of citizenship. We suggest that becoming citizen is not merely about obtaining Danish citizenship and civic rights nor tantamount with settling down. On the contrary, the analysis shows that becoming citizen is a process of expressed and performed desires connected to global becomings beyond the sedentary citizenship, and therefore holds capacity for transforming and diversifying the notion of citizenship.

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A bricolage of identifications: storying postmigrant belonging

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

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Toward postmigrant realities in Leila Aboulela’sElsewhere, Home

Becoming Citizen: Spatial and Expressive Acts when Strangers Move In

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