Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East

A Spatio-Temporal Approach

Ruth Breeze, Sarali Gintsburg, Mike Baynham, Ruth Breeze, Sarali Gintsburg, Mike Baynham

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781350289185
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350274563
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal aspects of their experiences. In doing so, the authors examine a wide range of accounts of journeys to host countries and memories (or recreations) of "home". The spaces that migrants occupy (or not) in their new country; the spaces and times they share with local populations; and different conceptions of space and time across generations are also investigated, as are how feelings surrounding space and time are manifested within these different narratives and their affective-discursive practices.

Taking both a traditional, linear view of migration as well as a multilinear, multimodal approach, the book presents an in-depth investigation into the ways in which people inhabit multiple real and digital spaces.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction Narrating Space and Time in Migration
• 1 Settling Out of Place: Narratives of Housing and Strategies of Ageing by a Ghanaian Migrant in the United States
• 2 ‘We will be able to get there – what? – a life!’ The Congolese in Kampala Narrating Migration through Time and Space
• 3 Exile, Time and Gender: Time Negation and Temporal Projection among Refugees from the Horn of Africa
• 4 Und wir sind weggelaufen: Borders and Walls in Narratives of Forced Displacement– A Study with Middle Eastern Refugees’ Visual Narratives in the German as a Second Language (DaZ) Classroom
• 5 Children’s Narratives about Their Journey from the Middle East to Hungary
• 6 Families on the Move: Spacetimes in Narratives of Language Socialization within Transnational Multilingual Moroccan Families in Spain
• 7 Circumscribed Transnational Spaces: Moroccan Immigrant Women in Rural Spain
• 8 The Route from West Africa to Europe, the Precariousness of Life in Marie NDiaye’s Three Strong Women
• 9 Tar or Honey? Space and Time of Moroccan Migration in a Video Sketch Comedy ‘al-Kāmīra lakum
• 10 Once a Dancer, Always a Dancer: The Story of Ahmad Joudeh
• 11 Digital Narratives of Syrian Political Dissidence in the Diaspora: Chronotopes of the Syrian Revolution and Transnational Grassroots Activism
• Contributors’ Notes
• Index
• Imprint