Abstract
In her article "Personal Geography, floating Identities and Inter-Asian Migration in Stories by Migrant Workers in Taiwan," I-Chun Wang discusses narratives by migrant workers with the purpose of looking into their personal geographies, their possibilities of integration, their floating identities and their dreams of settlement and possible success. This paper stresses the stories of migration show not only common human values, shared across cultures and creolization, but also sad stories of human-rights violations, injustices, discrimination, and even human trafficking. In these fictional stories or witness literature, cross-cultural conflicts, cultural in-betweenness and cultural hybridity are intertwined with the migrants’ ways to map their own personal geographies.
Recommended Citation
Wang, I-Chun.
"Personal Geography, Floating Identities and Inter-Asian Migration in Stories by Migrant Workers in Taiwan."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
20.2
(2018):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3227>
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