Migrant Narratives : Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community (Paperback)

1. Analysing migrant narratives as an ethnographic project: Academic representation as storytelling  Part I: Scripted narratives ? Continuities and ruptures  2. Narratives of absence: Making sense of loss and liminality in the post-war Bosnian diaspora  3. Home at last: Narrating community and belonging through retirement migration to Spain  4. Homecoming as exile? Experiences of rupture and belonging  Part II: Agency ? Resourceful victimhood  5. Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narrative  6. "When you win, you are a German, when you lose, you are a foreigner": Claiming position beyond the meritocratic and discriminatory migration discourse  7."None of these are jokes, it’s just my life…": Migrant narratives and female agency in Shazia Mirza’s comedy  Part III: Silences and voids in gendered narratives ? What can and cannot be told  8. The Syrian taxi driver: Migrant narratives or narratives of a researcher?  9. Reluctant stories: Silences in women’s narratives of war and exile  10. Planting the colonial narrative: The migrant letters of James Taylor in Ceylon  Part IV: Collective narratives ? Stories as a way of doing community  11. The "Titanic legacy": Collective narratives as resources of diasporic communities  12. Migrant ethnography on YouTube: "GermanLifeStyle" and the German "refugee crisis"  13. The migrant storyteller: Mnemonic and narrative strategies in migrant stories