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Emotion and forced migration: A biographical and metaphor analysis of the 'GDR children from Namibia'
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Abstract Forced migration is a complex process fraught with emotion. Biographical interviews offer limited scope for translating this process into narratives, yet it is nevertheless reflected in the material in various ways, such as through metaphors. We used interviews and observational material from a qual... view more
Forced migration is a complex process fraught with emotion. Biographical interviews offer limited scope for translating this process into narratives, yet it is nevertheless reflected in the material in various ways, such as through metaphors. We used interviews and observational material from a qualitative, empirical research project on the "GDR children from Namibia" to explore an analytical procedure that links the reconstruction of narrated and lived biographies (in German: erzählte and erlebte Lebensgeschichte) with reconstructive metaphor analysis. This allowed us to capture the actor's emotional experience via metaphors without losing sight of the complexity of biographical reconstruction.... view less
Keywords
Namibia; Southern Africa; child; German Democratic Republic (GDR); flight; migration; biography; narrative; metaphor; emotionality
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social History, Historical Social Research
Free Keywords
Forced Migration; Metaphor Analysis
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 103-122
Journal
Journal of Namibian Studies - History Politics Culture (2022) 31
ISSN
2197-5523
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0