期刊名称：ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
印刷版ISSN：1492-9732
出版年度：2015
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：461-469
语种：English
出版社：ACME: Eine internationale Internet-Zeitschrift für kritische Geographie
摘要：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. [1] The term ‘asylum seeker’ used in this study include women who have made a claim for asylum under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, regardless of the legal determination on their claim. [2] This study was developed from PhD research that was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council studentship.
