Becoming Canadian: Immigrant narratives of professional attainment

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Ursula E. Moffitt ◽  
Luciara Nardon ◽  
Hui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Narratives

Culture, Identity, and Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Rothe ◽  
Andres J. Pumariega
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Special Populations ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Immigrant Narratives

This chapter presents conclusions and future directions on culture, identity, and mental health, including the importance of identity and culture, separations and mourning as an important part of the immigrant experience, immigration-related separations, understanding acculturation, transnational identities, pilgrimages, and return migrations, understanding and treating refugees and special populations, criminality among immigrants to the United States, immigration and race, American narratives and immigrant narratives, treatment of immigrants and the children of immigrants, alternative futures for cultural identity – intercultural future and tribalistic future.

The Immigrant Narrative

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Rothe ◽  
Andres J. Pumariega
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Therapeutic Tool ◽  
Immigrant Experience ◽  
Immigrant Narrative ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Immigrant Narratives

The chapter on the immigrant narrative explains the role of human narratives in identity development and explains the origins, meanings, and importance of the quintessential American narrative, which is known as the narrative of the redemptive self. It explains how understanding the dynamics of this particular narrative facilitates the understanding of the American cultural experience and how many aspects of this narrative parallel the immigrant experience. It discusses the concepts of historical truth and narrative truth. It explains how the use of narratives can serve as a useful therapeutic tool to help the immigrant work through the traumas and losses associated with migration and to negotiate the different stages of transformation of the immigrant’s identity. This chapter also explains the neurobiology of memory formation and the distortions of memory and narrative that may result from psychological trauma. It discusses how psychotherapy involves the creation of new, more adaptive narratives that can provide healing and personal growth and its relevance in the immigrant experience. It also discusses immigrant narratives in contemporary literature and how these can be used as a therapeutic tool with the younger generations of immigrants. The chapter is illustrated with various clinical cases.

How We Found America: Reading Gender through East European Immigrant Narratives.

1996 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 654
Author(s):  
Ewa Morawska ◽  
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Keyword(s):  
East European ◽  
Immigrant Narratives

Worthy

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Ahoo Tabatabai
Keyword(s):  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Immigrant Narratives

In the chapter, the author outlines how cultural and individual immigrant narratives are shaped by neoliberalism. The author shows that in “doing gratitude,” the continuous effort of appearing grateful, immigrant narratives create a space where native-born individuals can construct themselves into narratives of salvation. The performance of gratitude has several key components that render it compatible with neoliberal ideology. The chapter proposes that narratives play a role in, first, establishing worthiness as defined by neoliberalism (sometimes at the expense of dignity), and second, promising future worthiness (sometimes at the expense of remembering old identities). The author uses Dina Nayeri's The Ungrateful Refugee as an example of a cultural and individual narrative that both challenges and reinforces gendered neoliberal ideals.

Immigrant Narratives: The Ottoman Sultans’ Portraits in Elisabeth Leitner’s Family Photo Album, circa 1862–72

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-228
Author(s):  
Nebahat Avcıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Photo Album ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
Immigrant Narratives ◽  
1848 Revolution ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Untapped Resource

Abstract This article is a study of the family photo album of Elisabeth Leitner (ca. 1842?–1908), a Hungarian immigrant in the Ottoman empire. The album contains a complete set of cartes de visite portraits of the Ottoman sultans by the Abdullah Frères. As the only surviving example of such a collection with a known provenance, it provides a rare opportunity for understanding how such images were used in the context of identity formation and social mobility undertaken by a member of the immigrant population. The album, which has never been studied before, is also a fascinating source for investigating the history of Hungarian immigrants in the Ottoman empire who were displaced after the 1848 Revolution. The article approaches the intriguingly autobiographical album by means of a close reading of Elisabeth Leitner’s diaries and unfinished autobiography. My interpretation serves to dismantle notions of a carefree global cosmopolitanism and exposes a historiographical bias that privileges men and their collections of images and ethnographic artifacts over those of women. Elisabeth Leitner’s writings and photographic collection also represent a vast and entirely untapped resource for investigating cultural contacts between Europe and the Ottoman empire in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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