Narratives of migration on Facebook: Belonging and identity among former fellow refugees

Baran, Dominika

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“…Whether migrants have resources and abilities to adapt to such contingencies affect their wellbeing in profound ways' (ibid 13-14). These processual approaches give insight to subjective nuances which are revealing of migrant life stories and there has been a rich and prolific literature in this domain (Eastmond, 2007;Gómez-Estern & de la Mata Benítez, 2013;Fathi, 2017;Baran, 2018).…”

Section: Tackling Theoretical Methodological and Ethical Issues In Re...mentioning

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Gendered Migrations and Conceptual Approaches: Theorising and Researching Mobilities

Christou

Kofman

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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While the repetitive rhetoric of ‘discovering’ women as active agents in mobility decisions, plans and the execution of such, might have had a major contribution in filling an important lacuna in migration studies literature several decades ago now (Morokvasic, 1984; Kofman, 1999), there are a number of analytical problems with continuing claims that seem to either conflate ‘gender’ with women or tend to nearly essentialise the ‘feminization of migration’ in reflecting discursive stereotypes. In the latter case, gendered migration research requires taking on board the historicity and local embeddedness of particular case studies which should clearly frame socio-political and development strategies when conducting studies to understand women migrants and female migration (Cornwall et al., 2008; Dannecker & Sieveking, 2009; Amelina & Lutz, 2019). This perspective becomes clear in the following sections and in the box included in this chapter where we include exemplifications from case studies and our own research findings.

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Section: Tackling Theoretical Methodological and Ethical Issues In Re...mentioning

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Gendered Migrations and Conceptual Approaches: Theorising and Researching Mobilities

Christou

Kofman

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…Sreenivasan et al (2017: 106) discuss similar concepts, suggesting mobile phones allow Sri Lankan refugees to keep an open dialogue and “create a virtual community for the refugees, to some extent replacing the physical community they left behind.” These online spaces may also offer participants the ability to narrativize their identity in relation to different local and super-diverse contexts. Focusing on Polish refugees and Facebook postings to other refugees, Baran (2018) argues that such narratives illustrate how those who post on relevant Facebook groups discursively maneuver issues of belongingness, ethnicity, nationalism, and identity. In considering the various affordances of digital technologies, it is critical to investigate the paradoxes as well, acknowledging that such technologies may also exacerbate some situations (Leurs and Smets, 2018).…”

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“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic

Hatef

2022

New Media & Society

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This article examines social media as a site for identity negotiation and community building among Roma in the Czech Republic. As Roma are continually denied authority over the construction of their identities, their Czech-ness, claim to physical spaces, and generally made to feel that they do not belong—both in the material and symbolic sense—this article examines how individual activists and community organizers utilize media as a resource to combat spatial alienation. This ethnographic study pays close attention to the cultivation of community through Facebook groups, the utilization of groups and event pages to organize, and the affordances and challenges of moving online efforts offline. At the same time, this article explores tensions and contradictions of these digital spaces that may involve issues like the lack of resources and the fragmentation of community—and of communal space—by such variables as age, language, and technological access and literacy. Ultimately, this article suggests that social media may embody both emotional and material places manifesting as additional/alternative places to negotiate identities and belonging for Roma in the Czech Republic. The findings of this research carry important implications for those with complicated relationships to home(lands), including geographically displaced people.

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“…While the challenges surrounding identity negotiation post-forced migration have been explored (e.g. Baran, 2018;Hatoss, 2012;Hoffman Clark, 2007;Marlowe, 2010;Oo Jin Lee & Brotman, 2011), I have found no literature focusing on former refugee employment challenges from the perspective of an identity which is negotiated and co-constructed in interaction, which is the approach that I take in this study.…”

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Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees

Greenbank

2020

Studies in Narrative

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In the coming decades, nations worldwide, exacerbated by political and environmental instability, will likely continue to struggle to deal with growing numbers of displaced persons.In this study I take an interactional sociolinguistic approach to exploring a critical area of refugee resettlement; that is, securing stable, desirable employment in host nations.Navigating the labour market in a new context can be a challenge for any migrant, and particularly so for former refugees. Host governments tend to consider accessing stable, long-term employment to be the most important factor for former refugees' social integration. It is also a high priority for former refugees themselves, who are often unable to find employment appropriate for their qualification and experience levels.I approach this issue of employability from the perspective of an employable identity, rooted within a social constructionist view of identity as emergent from and negotiated within discourse. This approach facilitates a view of employability as a discursive and socially situated phenomenon, which is interactionally achieved with employers, interviewers, and colleagues. Specifically, I explore the negotiation of employable identities in narratives, the stories we tell about ourselves through which we make sense of our place in the social world.Narratives are rich sites within which to explore the co-constructed negotiation of identity, through the positioning of self (both as narrator and protagonist) and other (both present interlocutor(s) and other characters within the storyworld).This study comprises two phases. The first involves four highly-educated former refugee participants originating from different Middle Eastern and North and East African countries.

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Narratives of migration on Facebook: Belonging and identity among former fellow refugees

Cited by 52 publications

References 32 publications

Gendered Migrations and Conceptual Approaches: Theorising and Researching Mobilities

Gendered Migrations and Conceptual Approaches: Theorising and Researching Mobilities

“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic

Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees

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