Narratives from the margin, narratives from the centre

• Autores: Ethel Kriger
• Localización: Crossing borders and shifting boundaries / coord. por Mirjana Morokvasic, Umut Erel, Kyoko Shinozaki, Vol. 1, 2003 (Gender on the Move), ISBN 978-3-8100-3493-9, págs. 23-32
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a very real sense, my application to study at the “International Women’s University (affectionately referred to as ifu,an acronym for the German Internationale Frauenuniversitaet), and specifically in the Project Area Migration, stemmed from the realization that I was being offered the opportunity to work through arguably the most formative years of my (adult) life, namely the almost twenty years of living as a “migrant”. Of these twenty years, eighteen were spent in political exile in Southern Germany, and two years in California as the spouse of a professional. I realized that life was offering me the unique gift of making theoretical sense of my personal trajectory, one that was to be interwoven with the trajectories and narratives of hundreds of women from an almost unimaginable collection of cultures and histories. At once I was filled with awe at the magnitude of this gift.