Migrants, thinkers, storytellers : negotiating meaning and making life in Bloemfontein, South Africa / Jonatan Kurzwelly and Luis Escobedo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurzwelly, Jonatan, author.

Escobedo, Luis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--South Africa--Bloemfontein--Attitudes.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Government policy--South Africa--Bloemfontein.

Race discrimination--South Africa--Bloemfontein.

Race discrimination.

Immigrants--Attitudes.

Immigrants--Government policy.

Race relations.

Social conditions.

Bloemfontein (South Africa)--Social conditions.

Bloemfontein (South Africa).

Bloemfontein (South Africa)--Race relations.

South Africa--Bloemfontein.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2021.

Summary:

Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers develops an argument about how individual migrants, coming from four continents and diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, are in many ways affected by a violent categorisation that is often nihilistic, insistently racial, and continuously significant in the organization of society. The book also examines how relative privilege and storytelling act as instruments for these migrants to negotiate meanings and make their lives in this particular context. This edited collection is based on a collaboration of humanities and social science scholars with individual immigrants, who engaged in narrative life-story research as their guiding methodology and applied various disciplinary analytical lenses. Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers provides a collection of diverse life stories and migratory experiences, and contributes diverse theoretical insights into the understanding of social identification during migration. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a post-apartheid city

Transcending social categories: reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories

From the mainland and from the colony: essay on the life narrative of a Portuguese migrant in Bloemfontein

Becoming white: the story of being assimilated into the white habitus of Bloemfontein

Extremism, essentialism and identity: the life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum

The shifting, social relations and national identity practices of a Peruvian migrant in South Africa's heartland

'Do you miss kimchi?' : a collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration

Written writing: an account of the emergence of an(other) academic author

Transitioning capitals in international student mobility

Migration change processes of a migrant couple: a social morphogenetic approach

The migrant as architect of his own comfort.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0796925984

9780796925985

OCLC:

1227382180

Publisher Number:

99993090211