Stories Told By, For, and About Women Refugees: Engendering Resistance

Smith, Kate (2015) Stories Told By, For, and About Women Refugees: Engendering Resistance. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 14 (2). pp. 461-469. ISSN 1492-9732

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Abstract

In this paper I discuss some of the ways women’s narratives reflect how they make sense of seeking asylum[1] and how narratives can become a means of resistance. The interview data comes from a qualitative study[2] looking at the in-depth narratives of seventeen women who had all made a claim for asylum in the United Kingdom (UK). The women who participated had been living in the UK for different periods of time, ranging from a couple of months to seven years. Aged between early twenties to mid-fifties, they came from fourteen different countries of origin. I utilised an in-depth narrative approach to interviewing women which offered a number of distinct advantages: allowing for women’s narratives to be the focus of the study; capturing the particularity, complexity and richness of each woman’s story; and highlighting women’s agency in storytelling (Mauthner and Doucet, 1998, 2003). Interviews lasted between one and a half to three hours and were conducted in a wide range of different locations in the UK.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
Depositing User:	Kate Smith
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2015 08:06
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2016 12:27
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/26116

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