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Displacement Stories: An Ethnographic Account of Seven Lives in Transit

De Gryse, Delphine M.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2575-7988
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1587581271658955

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2020, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Communication and Development Studies (International Studies).
In April 2015, more than one thousand people died while crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe. The large numbers of people losing their lives turned this issue into a highly mediatized topic, which received the label “crisis.” These numbers became the center of a political and media debate in which displaced people were predominantly underrepresented and misrepresented. This thesis is an ethnographic account that attempts to paint a more humanistic picture of the so-called “European refugee crisis.” The work is composed of seven intimate ethnographies that bring into relief the powerful life stories of particular people who are generally left out of official and media reports about contemporary migration from the Global South to the Global North. By focusing on the personal stories of these seven individuals, this thesis sheds light on the social, historical, economic, and political dimensions of the contemporary “European Refugee Crisis” without losing sight of the people most affected by it. This is both possible and necessary because these intimate stories of the particular illustrate the macro histories of violence, colonialism, and capitalism that have resulted in the unprecedented global flows of people in the twenty-first century.
Matthew Rosen (Committee Chair)
Risa Whitson (Committee Member)
Brian Plow (Committee Member)
154 p.
Communication; Cultural Anthropology
Migration; Displacement; Ethnography; Aegean Sea; Turkey; Greece; European Refugee Crisis; Intimate Ethnography; Ethnography of the Particular; Life Story; Materiality; Transit Migration

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  • De Gryse, D. M. (2020). Displacement Stories: An Ethnographic Account of Seven Lives in Transit [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1587581271658955

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • De Gryse, Delphine. Displacement Stories: An Ethnographic Account of Seven Lives in Transit. 2020. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1587581271658955.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • De Gryse, Delphine. "Displacement Stories: An Ethnographic Account of Seven Lives in Transit." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1587581271658955

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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