.... © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Canary Islands Diaspora Autoethnography Decolonizing Migration You make a commitment, un compromiso, to create meaning. A commitment to add to the field of literature and not just duplicate what’s already there. A commitment...

...Sarah Amira de la Garza To repair the injury and stifled agency caused by master narratives of migration stories, I call for narratives that specifically counter storying that reflects the master narrative. This narrative repair acknowledges narrative fatigue, embraces paradoxical tensions...

... the dehumanization of less-privileged groups, this essay hopes to demystify the unequal position of groups within contemporary migration. I want to close this essay by visiting the oft-heard claim that “we are all migrants.” While it is true that migration along different scales is a critical part of human...

...Courtney E. Cole In this essay, I consider issues of migration and im/mobility through experiences as a qualitative researcher of the aftermath of mass violence. In doing so, I consider how the progression of my scholarship has occurred in tandem with the development of my identity as a mother...

...Rona Tamiko Halaulani Across the continental United States, Hawaiians have migrated from Hawai'i, or the ancestral homeland of Hawaiians, and have created a burgeoning diaspora. More Hawaiians are also born on the continent in between the defining (and dominating) memory of Hawai'i and the everyday...

... Ray Chowdhury. I interviewed her in her home in Kolkata, India, in January 2018. Driven by her memories, I focused upon the invisible and intangible elements of migration. In the summer of 1947, her family had been vacationing in Patna, a city in the Indian state of Bihar, and owing to communal...

...Devika Chawla Editorial handovers are migrations that signal and embody movement, transition, and transformation. To attend to, and indeed to salute this shift as I launch my editorship of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research —what I am framing as an editorial migration—I present...

...Amardo Rodriguez In this essay I collapse and redefine our common notions of migrant and migration. I do this by exploring the different ways I epistemologically, existentially, relationally, spiritually, and pedagogically embody migration, and why I choose to identify as a migrant rather than...

... relationship, and head and heart, as they consider an opportunity to write about migration as family history. You spoke of the sadness of seeing me grow out of my innocence. We both know that this is the normal way of things. We spoke some time ago about parent–child relationships shifting as we age. You...

... burnings became commonplace among warring Yup'ik communities. The following essay considers the events of Nunalleq alongside a new era of migration as Yup'ik prepare to move farther inland in response to human-induced climate change. Specifically, I reflect on the relationships between Yup'ik material...

... migration and migrant communities. Such sensemaking that emerges from places of place privilege comes with incredibly high stakes. caravan, n . A company of merchants, pilgrims, or others, in the East or northern Africa, travelling together for the sake of security, esp. through the desert. Earliest...

...Fiona Alana Murray This story migrates through the cracks of enclosures that are built in reactive resistance to the movement of what is always already there. Turbulence drops the author in divergent times and spaces as she seeks to find ways of being with others, forming emergent collectivities...

...David Fa'avae Today I find myself back in the homeland, in the physical, back where my ancestors once walked and talked. In this essay, I unfold stories of migration to highlight the fluid and dynamic nature of such processes evidently shaped by our vā/va’/veitapui , that is, the relations...

...Bronwyn Davies This essay explores the encounters through which individuals and their communities are territorialized and deterritorialized. Thinking through Henri Bergson's lines of ascent and descent, this article looks at migration and seeking refuge. It makes links between the colonization...