Life Narratives, Common Language and Diverse Ways of Belonging
Abstract: The article discusses my experiences of gradual immersion into the community of Polish migrants to Australia, which I joined while researching life writing of Polish post-war women migrants to Australia. I focus on how my assumptions concerning commonality of culture and language transformed during the preliminary stages of my research. I initially assumed that speaking the same language as the writers whose works I study, and their ethnic community, would position me as a person sharing the same cultural knowledge, and allow me immediate access to research participants. Yet, the language I considered to be the major marker of ethnic identity exhibited multiplicity instead of unity of experiences, positions and conceptual worlds. Instead, gender, which I had considered a fluid and unstable category highly context-dependent especially in the migration framework, proved to be an important element of interaction and communication between myself and my research participants. I have lea.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2358
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Life Narratives, Common Language and Diverse Ways of Belonging ; volume:16 ; number:2 ; day:27 ; month:05 ; year:2015
Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 16, Heft 2 (27.05.2015)
- Creator
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Williams, Katarzyna Kwapisz
- DOI
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10.17169/fqs-16.2.2358
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urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502165
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:31 AM CEST
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