ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Walking Interview as a Biographical Method with reference to a walk undertaken with biographical sociologist Robert Miller that records and explores the experience in relation to his reflections on personal migration. It outlines of some usage of life accounts in research on migration, in the context of major biographical approaches and analyses. In migration research the concept of ‘transnationalism’ is used to articulate the relationship between the local and the global in people’s lives and in their migration experiences. The relationship between migration, memory, and space was central to Robert Bob’s biographical experience and his understanding of his life trajectory, which was a strong theme in the walk. The experience of ‘transnationalism’ involves simultaneously occupying both the places of origin and destination, and is an example of glocalisation and ‘the space of flows’. Biographical research offers a productive way of better understanding the challenges of transmigration and indeed glocalisation.
