Transitions from Exile to Academia
Experiences and Identities of Refugee Women Teachers from the Former Yugoslavia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Snežana Ratković (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 196-209 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2011.3.3.196 |
| OpenAlex | W2097778625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
Western academic literature frequently represents refugee women through the lens of deficit, particularly as powerless victims of war, rape, domestic violence, and mental disorder. This representation is, however, limited in scope and problematic in its colonising nature. This article explores the experiences of three refugee women teachers from the former Yugoslavia who immigrated to Ontario and Quebec during and after the Yugoslav wars (1991–1995) and whose narratives remain largely outside the master narrative of exile and settlement research. These women's stories challenge the image of a victimised and submissive refugee woman in the Canadian context and bring to the centre of the discourse the image of a refugee woman who is an aspiring academic. Through narrative inquiry, the ‘storying stories' model, transcript poems and personal narrative of the researcher this article explores the issues of gender, forced migrations, and academic identity
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Getting Smart
Society must be defended
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Colonialism/Postcolonialism
Storying stories
Taking up postcolonial feminism in the field
Blank slates or hidden treasure? Assessing and building on the experiential learning of migrant and refugee women in European countries
Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry
The Research Poem in International Social Work
From Interview Transcript to Interpretive Story
From Interview Transcript to Interpretive Story
That Rare Feeling
Nine Poems
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |