Migration as Adventure: Narrative Self-representation among Caribbean Migrants in Denmark
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Migration as Adventure : Narrative Self-representation among Caribbean Migrants in Denmark. / Olwig, Karen Fog.
I: Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology, Bind 83, Nr. 1, 01.2018, s. 156-171.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Migration as Adventure
T2 - Narrative Self-representation among Caribbean Migrants in Denmark
AU - Olwig, Karen Fog
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Narratives of adventure constitute a well-established convention of describing travel experiences, yet the significance of this narrative genre in individuals’ accounts of their migration and life abroad has been little investigated. Drawing on Simmel and Bakhtin, among others, this article analyses how Caribbean immigrants in Denmark present themselves through narratives of adventure as travellers of the world eager to experience different cultures and societies. In this way they assert themselves as actors within a global arena in contrast to a Denmark that, like many other nations in the global north, presents itself today as increasingly inward oriented and anxious to protect the local culture and society against foreign intruders. It is suggested that ethnographic analysis of migrants’ narrative self-representation in receiving societies can offer new insights into migrants as acting and reflecting subjects at a time when many societies display growing scepticism towards people on the move.
AB - Narratives of adventure constitute a well-established convention of describing travel experiences, yet the significance of this narrative genre in individuals’ accounts of their migration and life abroad has been little investigated. Drawing on Simmel and Bakhtin, among others, this article analyses how Caribbean immigrants in Denmark present themselves through narratives of adventure as travellers of the world eager to experience different cultures and societies. In this way they assert themselves as actors within a global arena in contrast to a Denmark that, like many other nations in the global north, presents itself today as increasingly inward oriented and anxious to protect the local culture and society against foreign intruders. It is suggested that ethnographic analysis of migrants’ narrative self-representation in receiving societies can offer new insights into migrants as acting and reflecting subjects at a time when many societies display growing scepticism towards people on the move.
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2016.1209538
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2016.1209538
M3 - Journal article
VL - 83
SP - 156
EP - 171
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 1
ER -
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