ABSTRACT

Narrative Inquiry of Displacement: Stories of Challenges, Change and Resilience describes a variety of displacement experiences in different cultures and contexts. The text uses narrative methodologies to share participant stories and explore the nature and effects of displacement.

Each chapter examines and theorises the narrative approach used to show the link between the data collection and the story, illustrating research decisions and analysis in action. The book presents a range of displacement stories, including migration, immigration, social and political displacement. The chapters also provide stories of adoptions, diaspora communities and people affected by apartheid and the Holocaust.

This volume is recommended for those working in qualitative inquiry and scholars of migration and refugee studies, providing immediate and theoretically nuanced accounts of displacement experiences globally.

part |27 pages

Prologue

part I|47 pages

Stories of migration

chapter 3|13 pages

Adoption

chapter 4|15 pages

Reflections of absence

Genetic displacement and reconception among donor-conceived persons in California

part II|39 pages

Stories of immigration

chapter 6|14 pages

International adoption and identity

Faith's story

chapter 7|12 pages

Diaspora

chapter 8|11 pages

A narrative inquiry of a home child

A generational story

part III|68 pages

Stories of political/social displacement

chapter 9|19 pages

Doing displacement in and between Sudan and the United States

Navigating language, relationality and ideologies

chapter 10|14 pages

Through the eyes of a Bo-Kaap woman

A post-apartheid displacement narrative

chapter 11|15 pages

Holocaust resistance and survival

Recasting the refugee experience

chapter 12|18 pages

Friend or foe?

A narrative inquiry into the experiences of a Japanese internment survivor

part |9 pages

Epilogue

chapter 13|7 pages

Conclusion

How stories of displacement and narrative inquiry touch