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Migration, Subjectivity and Identity: Navigating Power, Agency and Discourse in Interviews with Asylum Seekers
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Gerardo Mazzaferro – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
Drawing on Judith Butler's theory of performativity and positioning approaches, this paper examines how asylum seekers actively assert agency in navigating and (re)constructing their subjectivities and identities within research interviews. The analysis explores the power dynamics inherent in the interview setting and broader public discourse,…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Self Concept, Refugees, Discourse Analysis