Identity Constructions of Syrians in Their Narratives
Identity Constructions of Syrians in Their Narratives

Author(s): Güneş Koç
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Politics and Identity, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Identity; Syrians; refugees; worldliness; migrants;
Summary/Abstract: In this chapter, I will discuss the role of the narratives of refugees and migrants in constructing their identity and subjectivity. My methodology involves discussing the role of the narrative which allows construction of the migrant’s identity in the limbo and on the threshold. The interviewer’s role will be discussed in terms of how it affects the telling of the story and in making migrants' voices heard in the country where they arrived. This work seeks to discuss the role of the narrative of refugees and migrants as discourse practices which depicts a discursive place for the construction of the identity in the limbo and on the threshold. The refugees’ narratives provide an opportunity to discuss the identity construction of refugees in the foreignness and within the strangeness. According to Hannah Arendt, narratives of the stateless people serves as a tool to construct a worldliness, to be seen and to be heard.

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