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Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers : Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa / ed. by Luis Escobedo, Jonatan Kurzwelly.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780796926159
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a postapartheid city -- 2. Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories -- 3. From the mainland and from the colony: Essay on the life narrative of a Portuguese migrant in Bloemfontein -- 4. Becoming white: The story of being assimilated into the white habitus of Bloemfontein -- 5. Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum -- 6. The shifting social relations and national identity practices of a Peruvian migrant in South Africa’s heartland -- 7. ‘Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration -- 8. Written writing: An account of the emergence of an(other) academic author -- 9. Transitioning capitals in international student mobility -- 10. Migration change processes of a migrant couple: A social morphogenetic approach -- 11. The migrant as architect of his own comfort -- About the contributors -- Index
Summary: Involving immigrants as well as scholars and based on narrative life-story research, contributes important theoretical insights into the nature of social identification during the migration experience.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780796926159

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a postapartheid city -- 2. Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories -- 3. From the mainland and from the colony: Essay on the life narrative of a Portuguese migrant in Bloemfontein -- 4. Becoming white: The story of being assimilated into the white habitus of Bloemfontein -- 5. Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum -- 6. The shifting social relations and national identity practices of a Peruvian migrant in South Africa’s heartland -- 7. ‘Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration -- 8. Written writing: An account of the emergence of an(other) academic author -- 9. Transitioning capitals in international student mobility -- 10. Migration change processes of a migrant couple: A social morphogenetic approach -- 11. The migrant as architect of his own comfort -- About the contributors -- Index

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Involving immigrants as well as scholars and based on narrative life-story research, contributes important theoretical insights into the nature of social identification during the migration experience.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)