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How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires
Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/41449 How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires Du Plessis, Irma amanisak@gmail.com Tewolde, Amanuel Isak Eritrean refugees South Africa Pretoria Refugee identity Interpretative repertoires Subject positions Potter & Whetherell Discourse analysis Migration studies UCTD Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2014. This research study explores how ten Eritrean refugees living in Pretoria, South Africa, make sense of their refugee identity in individual interviews. Discursive analysis was employed as a methodology to capture the different ways of talking (interpretative repertoires) about their institutionally-ascribed refugee identity, their experiences as refugees and alternative identities which the refugees discursively constructed in their interaction with the researcher. The study was motivated to provide the refugees, as a marginalized social group, a platform for expressing their agency. Six men and four women were recruited for the study using a convenience sampling technique. Analysis resulted in the identification of five dominant and two less dominant interpretative repertoires. The dominant interpretative repertoires were as follows: ‘we have rights’ repertoire; ‘accept who you are’ repertoire; ‘they target you’ repertoire; ‘I am secure: they can’t deport me’ repertoire and ‘we are misunderstood as criminals’ repertoire. The two less dominant repertoires were: ‘our refugee identity is transient’ repertoire and ‘I am lost; I don’t have a country any more’ repertoire. The findings of such varied, contradictory and inconsistent ways of talking by the participants about their refugee identity demonstrate a challenge to previous empirical studies conducted on the experiences and identities of Eritrean refugees in different settings which treated participant accounts as consistent and coherent. Furthermore, the results of the study defy dominant discourses about refugees which describe them as voiceless and without agency. am2014 Sociology unrestricted 2014-08-20T09:10:08Z 2014-08-20T09:10:08Z 2014-04-23 2014 Mini Dissertation Tewolde, AI 2014, How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires, MSocSci dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41449> F/14/4/486 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41449 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Eritrean refugees South Africa Pretoria Refugee identity Interpretative repertoires Subject positions Potter & Whetherell Discourse analysis Migration studies UCTD How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires |
| title | How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires |
| title_full | How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires |
| title_fullStr | How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires |
| title_short | How Eritrean refugees in Pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation : an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires |
| title_sort | how eritrean refugees in pretoria give meaning to their refugee identity in conversation an interpretive study of salient interpretative repertoires |
| topic | Eritrean refugees South Africa Pretoria Refugee identity Interpretative repertoires Subject positions Potter & Whetherell Discourse analysis Migration studies UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41449 |