Narrative positioning of sub-Saharan migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates

Maisterintutkielma tarkastelee Saharan eteläpuolisesta Afrikasta lähteneiden Yhdistyneissä Arabiemiirikunnissa (UAE) työskentelevien siirtotyöläisten narratiiveja. Aineistona on seitsemän siirtolaisen haastattelut, joista neljän narratiiveja on tarkasteltu yksityiskohtaisemmin. Haastattelut on toteu...

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Main Author: Wusu, Veera
Other Authors: Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kieli- ja viestintätieteiden laitos, Department of Language and Communication Studies, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2024
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/94420
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description Maisterintutkielma tarkastelee Saharan eteläpuolisesta Afrikasta lähteneiden Yhdistyneissä Arabiemiirikunnissa (UAE) työskentelevien siirtotyöläisten narratiiveja. Aineistona on seitsemän siirtolaisen haastattelut, joista neljän narratiiveja on tarkasteltu yksityiskohtaisemmin. Haastattelut on toteutettu Yhdistyneissä Arabiemiirikunnissa keväällä 2015. Tutkielman tavoitteena on valottaa jokapäiväisistä tapahtumista kerrottujen tarinoiden ja Arabiemiirikunnissa elävien siirtotyöläisten elämään linkittyvien laajojen yhteiskunnallisten ja globaalien ilmiöiden suhdetta. Aineisto on käsitelty kahdessa vaiheessa. Ensin siitä on tarkasteltu chronotope-käsitteen avulla tiettyihin aika-paikka -kiteymiin liittyviä siirtotyöläisten kesken jaettuja kokemuksia koko aineiston osalta. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan menneisyyteen ja kotiin, menneisyyteen ja Yhdistyneisiin Arabiemiirikuntiin, sekä nykyhetkeen ja Yhdistyneisiin Arabiemiirikuntiin kytkeytyviä narratiiveja. Chronotope-analyysin avulla aineistosta on hahmotettu haastateltujen siirtotyöläisten kokemusten samankaltaisuuksia. Analyysin toisessa vaiheessa jokaiseen aika-paikka -kiteytymään liittyen on valittu lähempää tarkastelua varten kaksi narratiivia, jotka edustavat kyseistä kiteymää. Edelleen näistä toinen on analysoitu kolmitasoisen positioanalyysin (Bamberg 1997, De Fina 2013) avulla yksityiskohtaisesti. Kolmitasoisen positioanalyysin avulla on kuvattu osallistujien tapaa kuvata identiteettejään suhteessa tarinaan, jonka he kertovat, suhteessa henkilöön, jolle he sen kertovat, sekä linkitetty narratiivissa esille tulevia positioita laajempiin kirjallisuudessa, mediassa, sekä muiden haastateltavien vastauksissa ilmeneviin siirtotyöläisyyteen liittyviin ilmiöihin. Tutkielman tulokset kuvaavat yhtäältä siirtotyöläisten kokemuksiin liittyviä samankaltaisuuksia sekä sitä, miten yksittäisen ihmisen kohtaamat tapahtumat heijastavat laajempia tiedossa olevia ilmiöitä, ja toisaalta sitä, miten samankaltaisuuksista ja laajoista ilmiöistä huolimatta yksilöiden narratiivit yksityiskohtaisesti tarkasteltuna kertovat nimenomaan yhden ihmisen tavasta hahmottaa itsensä suhteessa elämänsä tapahtumiin ja ympärillä oleviin ihmisiin. This Master's thesis examines the narratives of migrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa working in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE). The data consists of interviews with seven migrants, of whom four narratives are exam-ined in more detail. The interviews were conducted in the UAE in spring 2015. The research aims to shed light to the connections between narrated everyday experiences and larger societal and global phenomena in the lives of migrant workers in the UAE. The analysis of the data was completed in two stages. First, it was analyzed using the concept of chronotope to examine the shared experiences among migrant workers in the specific time-place nodes across the data set. The study examines narratives linked to the past and home, the past in the UAE, and the present in the UAE. Chrono-tope analysis has been used to outline similarities in the experiences of interviewed migrant workers. In the second stage of the analysis, for each time-place node, two narratives representing the node were selected for closer examination. And, other of these was further analyzed in detail using a three-level positional analysis (Bamberg 1997, De Fina 2013). By the three-level positional analysis the ways participants narrate their identities in relation to the story they are telling, in relation to the person they are telling it to, and to link the positions emerg-ing in the narrative to wider phenomena related to migrant labor in the literature, in the media, and in the responses of other interviewees are described. The results of the study illustrate, on the one hand, the similarities in the experiences of migrant workers and how the events experienced by individuals reflect wider known phenomena, and, on the other hand, how, despite the similarities and wider phenomena, the narratives of individuals, reveal the way in which one person perceives themself in relation to the events of their life and the people around them.
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title_full Narrative positioning of sub-Saharan migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates
title_fullStr Narrative positioning of sub-Saharan migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates Narrative positioning of sub-Saharan migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates
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title_short Narrative positioning of sub-Saharan migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates
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topic migration positioning analysis United Arab Emirates Africa Language, Globalization and Intercultural Communication kerronta siirtolaisuus siirtotyöläiset siirtolaiset identiteetti narration migration (demography) migrant workers migrants identity (mental objects)
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