ABSTRACT
This chapter, based on narrative research, focuses on the adaptation of adults who have migrated to Estonia. Transformative learning theory has been applied as a framework for analyzing their stories of adaptation as a transformative learning process. The focus of the analysis is on the interplay of individual resources and contextual factors, resulting in the construction of two personal stories. These stories are about life experience and dilemmas, loss and suffering, hope and optimism, learning and adapting to a new living environment and life opportunities. These stories also show the potential of the transformative learning process triggered by disorienting dilemmas that lead to transformative experiences, and involve changes in life-orientations and personal identities.
