1st Edition
Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing Reimagining Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge, and Power
Introduction: Unsettling Migrant Narratives
Deborah Reed-Danahay and Helena Wulff
1. Exploring the Immigrant Novel: Blurred Genres, Embodied Identities, and the Unsettling Migration Experience
Caroline B. Brettell
2. “I Dream of Cabo Verde Every Night Now": Reflections on/from Writers in the Diaspora
Alma Gottlieb
3. “The love of the people – my reward”: Sam Selvon's legacy in Caribbean London
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
4. Imaginaries of Belonging in Middle-Class Relocation Narratives: The French in London
Deborah Reed-Danahay
5. Capturing Comedy and Tragedy: Emplacement Strategies in Migrant Writing from Sweden
Helena Wulff
6. Migrants’ Self-Narrations as Cultural Critique: Exploring Political Subjectivities through Asylum Seekers' and Returnees’ Narratives and Literature
Viola Castellano and Bruno Riccio
7. The Anthropologist as Observant Reader of Migrant Literature: The Case of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Noel B. Salazar
8. At the Unsettling Limits of Collaborative Life Writing: A Memoir of An Ethnography-Memoir
Susan Beth Rottmann
9. Scrolling Through Unheard Voices: Unaccompanied Child Migrant Narratives on Social Media
Othon Alexandrakis
Afterword: Migrants, Anthropologists, and Writing
Virginia R. Dominguez
Biography
Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.
Helena Wulff is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.
