Name: Mobility, Agency, Kinship. Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood
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Author: Carolin Gebauer;Lea Espinoza Garrido;Julia Wewior
ISBN: 9783031607561

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Mobility, Agency, Kinship. Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Author

Carolin Gebauer;Lea Espinoza Garrido;Julia Wewior

Collection

Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference

Year

2025

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8 cm

ISBN13

9783031607561

Mobility, Agency, Kinship. Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood

Carolin Gebauer;Lea Espinoza Garrido;Julia Wewior (Author) · Palgrave Macmillan · Paperback

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Synopsis "Mobility, Agency, Kinship. Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood"

This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify spaces of sovereignty, and thus to re-write narratives portraying them as helpless and passive victims. It provides one of the first investigations that assembles multidisciplinary contributions to look beyond individual acts of migrant agency and toward the entanglements of individual and collective agency, formations of kinship structures, and feelings, expressions, and representations of community and (multiple) belonging(s). The contributions explore the interplay between agency, kinship, and migration from various fields, including sociology, psychology, philosophy, border studies, gender and queer studies, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, film and media studies, and literary and cultural studies – with a special focus on interdisciplinary narrative theory. They address real and imagined assertions of migrant agency and kinship formations; draw on empirical research, interviews, and accounts of lived experiences; and analyze the role of narrative, media, and technologies in artistic, literary, and cinematic representations of migrant agency and kinship. By probing migrant identity discourses in different cultural and medial contexts, the contributions examine how narratives negotiate and challenge the unequal distribution of mobility, resources, and vulnerability that preconfigures many migrant lives; they also discuss narrative devices, storytelling techniques, and other representational strategies that migrants employ, as well as technologies that they draw on, to lay powerful claims on space and citizenship and to eschew established scripts of victimhood. As such, the volume addresses and embraces the tensions between vulnerability and agency that come to the fore when we try to understand the different ways in which migrants shape, and are shaped by, their (trans)local, material, economic, affective, social, cultural, and political realities.