Narrative Inquiry of Displacement

Narrative Inquiry of Displacement: Stories of challenges, change and resilience describes a variety of displacement experiences in different cultures and contexts. The text uses narrative methodologies to share participant stories and explore the nature and effects of displacement.

Lynn Butler-Kisber is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill where she teaches and conducts research in the areas of multiliteracies, qualitative research, leadership and professional development. She is the founding and current Editor of the LEARNing Landscapes journal and currently the Chair of Elliot Eisner Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Kelly Clark/Keefe is an Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Vermont where she teaches courses in qualitative research and social foundations of education. Using mainly critical arts-based approaches, she conducts empirical and conceptual analyses of epistemic injustice and identity formation in contemporary schooling and higher education. Maggi Savin-Baden is a Professor of Higher Education Research at the University of Worcester, UK. She has a strong publication record of over 70 research publications and 22 books, which reflects her research interests on the impact of innovative learning, qualitative research methodologies, digital fluency, cyber-influence, pedagogical agents and problem-based learning.

Prologue Chapter One: The story of the book and the chapters Chapter Two: Navigating the terrain: A narrative inquiry typology Part I: Stories of migration Chapter Three: Adoption Chapter Four: Reflections of absence: Genetic displacement and reconception among donor-conceived persons in California Chapter Five: Gypsy, Roma, Traveller displacement Part II: Stories of immigration Chapter Six: International adoption and identity: Faith's story Chapter Seven: Diaspora Chapter Eight: A narrative inquiry of a home child: A generational story Part III: Stories of political/social displacement Chapter Nine: Doing displacement in and between Sudan and the United States: Navigating language, relationality and ideologies Chapter Ten: Through the eyes of a Bo-Kaap womxn: A post-apartheid displacement narrative Chapter Eleven: Holocaust resistance and survival: Recasting the refugee experience Chapter Twelve: Friend or Foe? A narrative inquiry into the experiences of a Japanese internment survivor Epilogue Chapter Thirteen: Conclusion: How stories of displacement and narrative inquiry touch