Abstract

This article examines how young adults with refugee backgrounds reflect on their names through storytelling. Specifically, it explores the lessons and insights the young adults gain from reflecting on their name stories. The study involved six young adults with refugee backgrounds who participated in a storytelling workshop and subsequent interviews. Using a reflective narrative meaning-making framework, the analysis focused on the participants’ reflections and insights. The findings indicate that storytelling provides a powerful space for these young adults to assert their cultural identities, resist assimilation pressures, and build community. The findings call for the need to center stories of youth whose stories are not often heard and particularly youth with refugee backgrounds whose dominant narratives are usually told by others.

Journal
Research in the Teaching of English
Published
2025-02-01
DOI
10.58680/rte2025593340
Open Access
Closed
Topics

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Research in the Teaching of English

Cites in this index (5)

  1. Research in the Teaching of English
  2. Research in the Teaching of English
  3. Written Communication
  4. College English
  5. Research in the Teaching of English
Also cites 65 works outside this index ↓
  1. Finding voice through narrative storytelling: An exploration of the career development of…
    Journal of Vocational Behavior  
  2. Peruvian meatballs? Constructing the Other in the performance of an inclusive school
    Nordic Journal of Migration Research  
  3. Listening to hyphenated Americans: Hybrid identities of youth from immigrant families
    Theory into Practice  
  4. A corpus-based approach to discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UN and newspaper texts
    Journal of Language and Politics  
  5. Positioning between structure and performance
    Journal of Narrative and Life History  
  6. Beyond theory and method: A case of critical storytelling
    Theory Into Practice  
  7. Investigating narrative inequality: African asylum seekers’ stories in Belgium
    Discourse & Society  
  8. Narrative capability: Self-recognition and mutual recognition in refugees’ storytelling
    Journal of Information Policy  
  9. Reflective learning: Key to learning from experience
    Journal of Humanistic Psychology  
  10. Covering immigration: Popular images and the politics of the nation
  11. Contaminated communities: The metaphor of “immigrant as pollutant” in media representatio…
    Rhetoric and Public Affairs  
  12. Intersectional identity negotiation: The case of young immigrant children
    Journal of Literacy Research  
  13. Refugees, migrants, neither, both: Categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in …
    Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies  
  14. Identity texts and academic achievement: Connecting the dots in multilingual school contexts
    TESOL Quarterly  
  15. Writing our identities for successful endeavors: Resettled refugee youth look to the future
    Journal of Research in Childhood Education  
  16. Positioning: The discursive production of selves
    Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour  
  17. The Routledge handbook of migration and language
  18. Storytelling for oppositionists and others: A plea for narrative
    Michigan Law Review  
  19. Stories as lived experience: Narratives in forced migration research
    Journal of Refugee Studies  
  20. Uncertainty, threat, and the role of the media in promoting the dehumanization of immigra…
    Journal of Social Issues  
  21. Where poems hide: Finding reflective, critical spaces inside writing workshop
    Theory Into Practice  
  22. Playing with/through non-fiction texts: Young children authoring their relationships with…
    Journal of Early Childhood Literacy  
  23. The Routledge international handbook on narrative and life history
  24. Negative school perceptions and involvement in school bullying: A universal relationship …
    Journal of Adolescence  
  25. Discourses of domination: Racial bias in the Canadian English-language press
  26. Constructing a discursive crisis: Risk, prob-lematization and illegal Chinese in Canada
    Ethnic and Racial Studies  
  27. Reframing the archive: Vietnamese refugee narratives in the post-9/11 period
    Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States  
  28. Narrative inquiry as pedagogy in education: The extraordinary potential of living, tellin…
    Review of Research in Education  
  29. Writing and identity: The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing
  30. Who’s driving the asylum debate? Newspaper and government representations of asylum seekers
    Media International Australia  
  31. Teachers, please learn our names!: Racial mi-croaggressions and the K-12 classroom
    Race Ethnicity and Education  
  32. The 1,000-page question
    Qualitative Inquiry  
  33. Teaching (in) justice: One teacher’s work with immigrant English learners
    The Urban Review  
  34. “We just want the language tone”: When requests to use minority languages lead to interac…
    International Journal of the Sociology of Language  
  35. Digital storytelling as a social work tool: Learning from ethnographic research with wome…
    The British Journal of Social Work  
  36. Naturalistic inquiry
  37. RP or “RIP”: A critical perspective on reflective practice
    Applied Linguistics Review  
  38. Beyond the discourse of trauma: Shifting the focus on Sudanese refugees
    Journal of Refugee Studies  
  39. Culturally responsive teaching across PK-20: Honoring the historical naming practices of …
    Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education  
  40. Achieving reflective learning using storytelling pathways
    Innovations in Education and Teaching International  
  41. Late adolescents’ self-defining memories about relationships
    Developmental Psychology  
  42. Race, culture, and researcher positionality: Working through dangers seen, unseen, and un…
    Educational Researcher  
  43. Resistance and insubordination
    Hypatia  
  44. #WE SPEAK: Exploring the experience of refugee youth through participatory research and poetry
    Journal of Youth Studies  
  45. The social construction of the personal past and its implications for adult development
    Psychological Bulletin  
  46. Two decades of developments in qualitative inquiry: A personal, experiential perspective
    Qualitative Social Work  
  47. Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts
  48. Names: A new dimension of transformation
    Race Ethnicity and Education  
  49. Exploring names and identity through multicultural literature in K-8 classrooms
    Multicultural Perspectives  
  50. Affect and accuracy in recall: Studies of “flashbulb” memories
  51. “People get mistaken”: Asian American girls using multiple literacies to defy dominant im…
    Reading Research Quarterly  
  52. Who, where, and how of interviewing peers: Implications for a phenomeno-logical study
    SAGE Open  
  53. Story-making as methodology: Disrupting dominant stories through multimedia storytelling
    Canadian Review of Sociology  
  54. Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data
  55. Resettled refugee youths’ stories of migration, schooling, and future: Challenging domina…
    The Urban Review  
  56. Refugee life making: (Re)centering the refugee narrative through feminist refugee epistemology
    New Directions for Higher Education  
  57. Toward projects in humanization: Research on co-creating and sustaining dialogic relationships
    American Educational Research Journal  
  58. What’s in a name? A critical literacy and functional linguistic analysis of immigrant acc…
    Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education  
  59. From deficit to asset: Locating discursive resistance in a refugee-background student’s w…
    Journal of Language, Identity & Education  
  60. Critical race methodology: Counter-storytelling as an analytical framework for education …
    Qualitative Inquiry  
  61. Immigrant families and children (re)develop identities in a new context
    Early Childhood Education Journal  
  62. Perspectives of children from refugee backgrounds on their family storytelling as a cultu…
    Journal of Research in Childhood Education  
  63. Personal memory telling and personality development
    Personality and Social Psychology Review  
  64. When remembering is not enough: Reflecting on self-defining memories in late adolescence
    Journal of Personality  
  65. Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
    Race Ethnicity and Education  
CrossRef global citation count: 2 View in citation network →