Young Migrant Narratives
This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative. Drawing on narrative interviews and creativ...
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| author | Nicolson, Marcus |
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| description | This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative. Drawing on narrative interviews and creative arts methods, it builds a counter-archive of lived experience to examine how macro-narratives of Scottish distinctiveness shape, stabilise, and limit migrant belonging. This book identifies four key coping mechanisms: minimising racism, performing the “good migrant,” adopting Scottish signifiers, and negotiating biographical self-narratives. It shows how these operate as forms of narrative affirmation. By returning to the micro-level foundations of ontological security theory, it reconceptualises security as cyclical, fragile, and dependent on interpretive labour rather than as a fixed and stable end state. Situated at the intersection of migration studies, political sociology, identity studies, and security studies, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations, human geography, nationalism studies, and critical migration research. It will also appeal to those engaged in debates on belonging, minority rights, and the politics of everyday life in contemporary Europe. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1770432026-05-30T05:19:14Z Young Migrant Narratives Nicolson, Marcus Migration Identity Ontological security Narrative research Migration politics Everyday life thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative. Drawing on narrative interviews and creative arts methods, it builds a counter-archive of lived experience to examine how macro-narratives of Scottish distinctiveness shape, stabilise, and limit migrant belonging. This book identifies four key coping mechanisms: minimising racism, performing the “good migrant,” adopting Scottish signifiers, and negotiating biographical self-narratives. It shows how these operate as forms of narrative affirmation. By returning to the micro-level foundations of ontological security theory, it reconceptualises security as cyclical, fragile, and dependent on interpretive labour rather than as a fixed and stable end state. Situated at the intersection of migration studies, political sociology, identity studies, and security studies, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations, human geography, nationalism studies, and critical migration research. It will also appeal to those engaged in debates on belonging, minority rights, and the politics of everyday life in contemporary Europe. 2026-05-30T05:19:13Z 2026-05-30T05:19:13Z 2026-05-29T11:31:28Z 2026 book ONIX_20260529T115621_9781003565994_20 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113850 9781003565994 9781032934662 9781032934686 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177043 eng Routledge Advances in Sociology open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003565994 10.4324/9781003565994 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003565994 9781032934662 9781032934686 Routledge 1 London open access |
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| title | Young Migrant Narratives |
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| title_short | Young Migrant Narratives |
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| topic | Migration Identity Ontological security Narrative research Migration politics Everyday life thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology |
| topic_facet | Migration Identity Ontological security Narrative research Migration politics Everyday life thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology |
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