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The study of narrative has been at least from the beginnings of the ‘narrative turn’ (Bruner 1986, Polkinghorne 1988) one of the most important areas for investigating migration and migrants. Through personal stories narrators represent social relations between them and others, and among collective agents, they depict power struggles and ways in which events that are central to their lives or the life of communities to which they belong unfold. Thus, narratives also have great significance for the investigation of intercultural issues with which migrants, as mobile people, continuously deal (De Fina 2016, Wilczewski 2019). The contributors to this volume add their insights to a well-established tradition of narrative analysis within the vast and interdisciplinary field of migration studies. This interdisciplinary volume presents a rich kaleidoscope through which the experiences of migrants can be understood. Through the lens of the Nordic case, they look at different ways in which identities are constructed, ascribed and contested in storytelling in a variety of institutional, public and personal environments.
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De Fina, A. (2022). Post-script: Narratives in the Construction of the Experiences of Migrants and Transnational People. In: Lane, P., Kjelsvik, B., Myhr, A.B. (eds) Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89109-1_9
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