Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives

Pia Lane is Professor of Multilingualism at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), University of Oslo, Norway, and her research interests include narrative analysis, language policy, language shift and language revitalisation. She edited Standardizing Minority Languages (with Costa and De Korne) and is co-editor-in-chief of Linguistic Minorities in Europe.Bjørghild Kjelsvik is Associate Professor of Norwegian Language at the Department of Teacher Education, NLA University College, Oslo, Norway. She holds a PhD in Linguistics. Her research interests include discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology and narrative analysis. She has published research on asylum interviews as oral narratives.Annika Bøstein Myhr is Associate Professor of Norwegian Literature at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Myhr holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and has published extensively on Russian and Scandinavianliterature. She is the editor of Twist (2021), and co-editor of Sårbarhet og litteratur [‘Vulnerability and literature’] (2021, with Dancus and Linhart).

• Chapter 1. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of spoken, written and material narratives.- Chapter 2. “I have no family” –Identity constructions in an asylum interview.- Chapter 3. Who gets to tell whose story? Asylum seeker narratives in Maria Amelie’s Ulovlig norsk, Mikhail Shishkin’s Venerin volos, and the research chapter.- Chapter 4. ‘Model minorities’ in a ‘sociolinguistic paradise’: How Latin-American migrants talk about job interviews in Norway.- Chapter 5. Wielding space and time in migrant narratives: Personal and professional identities in discourse.- Chapter 6. Visual Metaphors of Migration in Museums.- Chapter 7. “An inky life line of survival”: Identity and rewriting in Scandinavian migration narratives.- Chapter 8. “It feels like now this is in our own language”: religion, authenticity and belonging.- Chapter 9. Post-script: Narratives in the construction of the experiences of migrants and transnational people.