Analysing Forced Migration (Paperback)

This book considers the specific features of forced migration research, which pose unique challenges when analysing data, and offers a range of analysis tools from discourse analysis. Drawing on real-world case studies from around the world, but particularly from the Global South, this book guides researchers from all disciplines on how to leverage on linguistic tools and approaches that can enhance their forced migration researchers. It provides researchers, students, and teachers with an overview of forced migration research approaches and methods. It then covers concepts from discourse analysis in combination with other disciplines to study complex migration experiences. It presents a unique focus on the peculiarities of analysing forced migration in the Global South, with practical guidance on using discourse analysis to examine forced migrant identities and representations in variety of social situations and text types. Each chapter features a specific discourse analytic approach that is used on a migration-related data set and includes a range of examples and guided activities. This book provides essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as migration researchers interested in expanding their data analysis repertoire.

Charity Lee is currently a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her main areas of research include narrative analysis and discourse analysis, particularly involving social practices surrounding migrant and vulnerable groups, as well as narrative methodology. Her research also includes communication practices in media, politics, and healthcare. More recently, she has begun employing participatory and arts-based methods in her work with vulnerable groups. She has published in Sociological Research Online; Discourse, Context and Media; Discourse and Society; Emotion, Space and Society; Patient Education and Counseling; International Journal of Medical Informatics; and Perspectives - Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, among others.

Yating Chen recently earned her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her research focuses on emotions and the self in the depression narratives in online communities. She has a broad research interest in narrative analysis and discourse analysis, particularly how discourse, identity, and the Internet interplay to realise different agendas of marginalised or minority communities.

Kumaran Rajandran is a senior lecturer at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He teaches BA and MA subjects in Linguistics and supervises MA and Ph.D. research in Discourse Studies. His research utilises multiple approaches to examine discourses in English, Malay, and Spanish, to explore the articulation of identity and ideology in contemporary societies. He is the co-founder of the Malaysian Discourse Research Group and an associate editor of  3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature.