Migrating selves : reconstructing and renegotiating Black immigrant academic identities
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Vandeyar, Saloshna
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Routledge
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This study set out to explore how Black immigrant academics (BIAs) reconstruct their identities within academe. Utilising the research methodology of narrative inquiry, this article explores how BIAs came to see themselves across those communities, which were of primary importance to them in the reformation of their identities. Through the construction of narratives of experience, their lived and told stories emphasised the diversity of their identities that were negotiated with others within personal, historical and situational contexts. The study of BIAs’ lives from their perspective, in which they actively and socially develop their identities, not only provides a lens through which they can be understood as shifting constructions of identity but allows them to rethink who they are and have become and what influence power relations have in promoting or negating their sense of academic self.
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Black immigrant academics (BIAs), Wandering scholar, Renegotiation, Reconstruction, Immigrant academics, Academic identities
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Vandeyar, S. 2020, 'Migrating selves : reconstructing and renegotiating Black immigrant academic identities', Higher Education Research and Development, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1276-1289.