Migrant Scholars Researching Migration: Reflexivity, Subjectivity and Biography in Research

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Marco Gemignani (Universidad Loyola, Spain) Yolanda Hernández-Albújar (Universidad Loyola, Spain)

Migrant Scholars Researching Migration

Reflexivity, Subjectivity and Biography in Research

Marco Gemignani (Universidad Loyola, Spain), Yolanda Hernández-Albújar (Universidad Loyola, Spain), Jana Sládková (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)

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Routledge
11 October 2023

Migration, immigration & emigration; Ethnic studies; Sociology; Higher & further education, tertiary education

How can biography and reflexivity become integral processes of an inquiry? How do we apply these processes to our research and to our accounts of ourselves?

Presenting studies by migration scholars who are migrants themselves, Migrant Scholars Researching Migration illustrates the creative and affective function of embedding one's research in subjectivity, reflexivity, and personal biography. The book shows that linking personal experiences and biographies with research practices and agendas can be instrumental to the development of knowledges and new methodologies. The authors demonstrate, for instance, how their migration backgrounds have affected what kind of research they ‘should’ conduct. They also describe how their research findings have changed their understanding of their personal positionings as migrants and scholars.

This book debunks the dogma of separating the researcher from their investigation by placing the researchers' experiences and multi-layered reflections at the center of their scholarly work. It sheds light on the importance of reflexivity and subjectivity as processes and assets in research rather than obstacles.

Migrant Scholars Researching Migration will appeal to researchers and students interested in methodology, biographical research, theories of knowledge, and scholars of migration and diaspora studies.

Chapters: Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Edited by: Marco Gemignani (Universidad Loyola Spain), Yolanda Hernández-Albújar (Universidad Loyola, Spain), Jana Sládková (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032115603
ISBN 10: 1032115602
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 11 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dedication List of figures Acknowledgments Notes on contributors Foreword CECILIA MENJÍVAR Foreword KENNETH J. GERGEN Introduction MARCO GEMIGNANI, YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ-ALBÚJAR, AND JANA SLÁDKOVÁ Theoretical Introduction: Subjectivity, Reflexivity, and Affectivity as Research Processes MARCO GEMIGNANI, YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ-ALBÚJAR, AND JANA SLÁDKOVÁ PART I Entanglements of Memories as Research 1. When we migrate ANDREEA DECIU RITIVOI 2. My poncho is a flamenco kimono FERNANDO IWASAKI 3. Wesearch: A Lao research scholar’s experience learning about and with her Southeast Asian American community PHITSAMAY S. UY 4. The process of becoming: An intimate and retrospective look at a 30-year journey of searching for a home VERONICA MONTES 5. Looking for home: Reflections on an artistic process PAVEL ROMANIKO PART II Negotiating belonging and identities in research On not seeing oneself in the migration scholarship: Race and the struggle for belonging in the Indian diaspora SUNIL BHATIA In-between places: Negotiating (dis)advantage across national contexts NIDA BIKMEN Going from student to immigrant to citizen ERNESTO CASTAÑEDA Migration, narratives, and languages: Between life and work ANNA DE FINA Being a transnational language teacher educator and researcher: Borderlands, ideologies, and liminal identities BEDRETTIN YAZAN A transatlantic teacher educator: My life and career across two countries and languages JOHANNA TIGERT The research memoir of an intra-EU migrant who has become a guest in a settler colonial state ANNA TRIANDAFFYLIDOU PART III Tensions of power in knowledge production Bewilderment and illumination: Language as a tool to understand the migrant experience LUKA LUCIĆ Developing new approaches, stepping beyond categories: transnationalism and youth mobility trajectories in migration research VALENTINA MAZZUCATO From the “field” to the stage: A migration story CAROLINA ALONSO BEJARANO Can Black girls be transnational? NAFEESAH ALLEN From “second-generation immigrant” to sociologist of migration MARCO MARTINIELLO Keeping the struggle alive: A methodologically disobedient essay ALI KONYALI Conclusions: Towards New Ways of Knowing MARCO GEMIGNANI, YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ-ALBÚJAR, AND JANA SLÁDKOVÁ Index

Marco Gemignani is Associate Professor/Reader in the Psychology Department at Universidad Loyola in Seville, Spain, where he specializes in qualitative methodologies, clinical community psychology, and cultural psychology. He is a former president of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology and actively collaborates with numerous qualitative journals, associations, and research centers in psychology. His interests are in innovative critical methodologies and narrativeconstructivist psychotherapies, which he applies mostly in the field of migration studies. His most recent research projects concern transnational families, collective traumatic memories, and the psychosocial dimensions of the irregularization of migration. Yolanda Hernández-Albújar works at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, in Seville, where she teaches courses in Cultural Anthropology, Migration, and Gender. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and a master´s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. She explores, from a cultural perspective, issues of identity, migration, and gender. She specializes in qualitative and visual methodologies and collaborates with various journals and associations. She is now the principal investigator in two projects regarding migrants in Latin America. Jana Sládková is an Associate Professor of critical social psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA. She is a qualitative researcher with expertise in narrative inquiry. Her focus of inquiry is on migration issues of unauthorized migrants, and racial/ethnic diversity and inclusion in higher education in the United States. She is the author of Journeys of Undocumented Honduran Migrants to the United States and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Her latest projects include Participatory Action Research with adult immigrant English learners in Massachusetts and celebrating Latinx communities in New England, USA.