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Article published In: Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts
Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Zuzana Fonioková
[Narrative Inquiry 35:2] 2025
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World in motion

Narratives in the context of migration and digitalization

ORCiD logo with link | Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt
Published online: 25 February 2025
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Abstract
Migration is part of the “global movement potential” (Albrow, M. (2014). Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change. Vittorio Klostermann GmbH. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, p. 14) that is currently shaping social change worldwide. This article focuses on the narratives and narrative practices of migrants. It is assumed that narrative is an attempt to come to terms with migration experiences. The research interest focuses on the what, how and why of migrant narratives and the role of digital media in everyday storytelling. The empirical basis is the study “Transnational living”, in which people from various African, Arab and European countries were included. The research methods are committed to an understanding-interpretative paradigm. Discourses from migration, narration and mediatization research form the theoretical framework of the analysis.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Migration and mediatization: A sketch
    • The distant is made visible and audible
    • Presence under the sign of the scopic
    • Linking different time and space zones
  • Data and methodology
    • The sample
    • The understanding-interpretative approach: Three perspectives
      • Grounded Theory (GT)
      • Metaphor analysis
      • Narrative analysis
    • Research tools
    • Othering as a factor relevant to knowledge
  • What and how: Migrants telling stories
    • What moves migrants: Narrative topics
      • Development
      • Movement
      • Balance
    • Narrative practices in the migrant narratives
      • Visual storytelling
      • Shared storytelling
      • Transnational storytelling
      • Small stories
  • Migrant narratives, narrative practices, subject constructions and media: A summary
  • Notes
  • References
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