dc.contributor.author |
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria |
dc.date |
2020-02-04T11:43:06Z |
dc.date |
2020-02-04T11:43:06Z |
dc.date |
2018-01-18 |
dc.date |
2020-02-04T11:43:13Z |
dc.identifier |
0165-2516 |
dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67929 |
dc.identifier |
https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0054 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67929 |
dc.description |
In this article I explore the benefits of interplaying narrative and ethnography for conducting a context-grounded, sociolinguistic analysis of the representational and interactional functions of migrant storytelling events concerning dis/relocation. I focus on a series of narratives of socioeconomic and geographic im/mobility told by three Ghanaians who, unsheltered, lived on a bench of a Catalan urban town. These were gathered via 'go-along' narrative interviews and multi-site ethnography during six months of fieldwork. I show that the imbrications of a social-practice and social-action approach to narrative with network ethnography allow to: (1) investigate how representation and interaction in place-centered stories and storytelling acts reveal the narrators' positionings with respect to host-society dis/emplacement, in their alternative spaces of socialization; (2) capture what gets silenced in dis/orientation narratives, like discrepancies between stories told and lived concerning identity management across migrant groups; and (3) expose the researchers' impact on shaping the form and content of these stories by ingraining self-reflexivity activities into all analytical accounts. This offers an informant-integrative, critical view of how migrants enact transnational survival in contexts of precariousness and exclusion, which contributes to understanding how they place themselves with regard to their non-citizenship statuses, from a socially-sensitive, non-essentializing perspective. |
dc.format |
application/pdf |
dc.language |
eng |
dc.publisher |
De Gruyter |
dc.relation |
Versió postprint del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0054 |
dc.relation |
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2018, vol. 2018, núm. 250, p. 35-58 |
dc.rights |
(c) De Gruyter, 2018 |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Narrative in action |
dc.subject |
Critical ethnography |
dc.title |
Exploring the interplay of narrative and ethnography: A critical sociolinguistic approach to migrant stories of dis/emplacement |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dc.type |
acceptedVersion |