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Resources

Our team stays on top of relevant research and reporting on migration in the past and present. We actively update this page with resources, including full citations to scholarly work and links to news or reports on migration.

The Migrants of the Mediterranean resources library was created with the 2023 Community Partnership with Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Baesler, E. James and Judee K. Burgoon, “The Temporal Effects of Story and Statistical Evidence on Belief Change,” Communication Research, Vol. 21 No.5, October 1994: 582-602.

Berg, Olaf, “Capturing Displaced Persons Agency by Modelling Their Life Events,” Historical Social Research, Vol. 45 No. 4, 2020: 263-289.

Birns, Nicholas, “Failing to Be Separate: Race, Land, Concern.” In Contemporary Australian Literature, Sydney University Press, 121-155, December 2015.

Breen-Smyth, Marie, “Suffering, Victims and Survivors in the Northern Ireland Conflict: Definitions, Policies, and Politics.” In Victimhood and Acknowledgement, De Gruyeter, 40-58, 2018.

Bunting, Annie, “Narrating Wartime Enslavement, Forced Marriage, and Modern Slavery,” In Contemporary Slavery, ed. Annie Bunting and Joel Quirk, Cornell University Press, 129-156, 2017.

Castañeda, Esther Claros-Belioz and Xiang Shen, “English Learners (ELs) Have Stories to Tell,” The English Journal, Vol. 107 No. 6, July 2018: 20-25.

Cizek, Katerina, “Storytelling for Advocacy: Conceptualization and Preproduction,” In Video for Change, ed. Sam Gregory, Gillian Caldwell, Ronit Avni and Thomas Harding, Pluto Press, 2005.

Coon, Davic, “Challenging Oppressive Myths: LGBTQ Activism and Storytelling,” In Turning the Page, Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Cottle, Thomas, “Witness to the Story,” Studies in Education, Vol. 10 No. 2, Fall 2013: 143-170.

De Graaf, Anneke et al., “Identification as a Mechanism of Narrative Persuasion,” Communication Research, Vol. 39 No. 6, 2012: 802–823.

Dixon, Renee, “What About Us? Preserving LGBTIQ+ History of Forced Displacement,” The International Journal of Information, Vol. 5 No. 4, Fall 2021: 43-68.

Emde, Katharina, Christoph Klimmt, and Daniela M. Schluetz, “Does Storytelling help Adolescents to Process the News? A comparison of narrative news and the inverted pyramid,” Journalism Studies, Vol. 17 No. 5, 2016: 608-627.

Fernandes, Sujatha, Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling, Oxford University Press, 2017.

Gamson, William A., “How Storytelling Can Be Empowering,” in Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition, Routledge, 2002.

Green, Melanie C. et al., “The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol.79 No. 5, 2000: 701-721.

Haile, Semhar. "Voices to Be Heard? Reflections on Refugees, Strategic Invisibility and the Politics of Voice." In Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys across Disciplines, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. UCL Press, 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13xprtw.9.

Hoeken, Hans and Karin M. Fikkers, “Issue-relevant thinking and identification as mechanisms of narrative persuasion,” Poetics 44, 2014: 84-99.

Hoeken, Hans and Jop Sinkeldam, “The Role of Identification and Perception of Just Outcome in Evoking Emotions in Narrative Persuasion,” Journal of Communication, 64, 2014: 935-955.

Jones, Natasha N., and Rebecca Walton. "Using Narratives to Foster Critical Thinking About Diversity and Social Justice." In Key Theoretical Frameworks: Teaching Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Angela M. Haas and Michelle F. Eble, 242-249. University Press of Colorado; Utah State University Press, 2018. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv7tq4mx.16.

Lowndes, Viven, “Narrative and storytelling,” in Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences: Methods that matter by Gerry Stoker and Mark Evans, Bristol University Press; Policy Press, 2016.

McAdams, Dan P. and Kate C. McLean, “Narrative Identity,” Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2013: 233-238.

Neimeyer, Robert A., “Fostering Posttraumatic Growth: A Narrative Elaboration,” Psychological Inquiry, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2004: 53-59.

Polletta, Francesca, “Characters in Political Storytelling,” Storytelling, Self, Society, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2015: 34-55.

Vogl, Anthea, “Telling Stories from Start to Finish: Exploring the Demand for Narrative in Refugee Testimony,” Griffith Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2013: 63-86.