Asserting Existence

Agentive Narratives Arising From the Restraints of Seeking Asylum in East Anglia, Britain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2263643
AutoresSophia Rainbird (0000-0003-2971-9222, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen42
Número4
Páginas460-478
Fecha de publicación2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/etho.12064
OpenAlexW1550559140
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas38

This article is based on fieldwork (2002-2003) in Great Yarmouth and Norwich in Britain with asylum seekers from Iraq, Iran, Kenya, Kosovo, Congo, and Montenegro as they await the outcome to their application for refugee status. During this period of liminality, their narratives were both urgent and repetitive expressions of their current immigration status and, to a lesser extent, their past experiences. In this article, I consider how such narratives are elicited by asylum seekers to craft an agentive capacity during this liminal period to overcome an existential crisis and assert their existence within society. Stories that recount traumatic experiences work as a way of reconciling a past that can no longer exist and a current state of liminality with a new sense of being in the world

Archaeology · Art · Craft · Ethnology · Existentialism · Immigration · Liminality · Montenegro · Narrative · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics