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Lange hat sich die soziologische Biografieforschung ganz überwiegend auf Menschen konzentriert, die im "globalen Norden" leben. Dieser Band ist ein Beitrag zu den jüngeren Bemühungen, diese viel zu enge Perspektive aufzuheben. Er zielt auf die Lebensgeschichten und Lebensverläufe von Menschen aus Afrika und dem Nahen Osten. Dabei stehen die biografischen und sozio-geschichtlichen Verflechtungen mit anderen Menschen und anderen gesellschaftlichen Gruppierungen im Mittelpunkt.

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Contents

Preface 7
Introduction 9
Gabriele Rosenthal and Artur Bogner

Biographies-Discourses-Figurations: Methodological considerations from the perspectives of social constructivism and figurational sociology 15
Artur Bogner and Gabriele Rosenthal

Familial and life (hi)stories of former child soldiers of the LRA in northern Uganda 50
Artur Bogner, Gabriele Rosenthal and Josephine Schmiereck

Illegalized migration courses from the perspective of biographical research and figurational sociology: The land border between Spain
and Morocco 103
Gabriele Rosenthal, Eva Bahl and Arne Worm

Civil war and the figurations of illegalized migration: Biographies of Syrian migrants coming to the European Union 160
Arne Worm

Precarious transnational biographies: Moroccan juveniles in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla 185
Eva Bahl

A mixed family of long-time residents and internal migrants in East Jerusalem: The established-outsider figuration of ´Hebronites´ and ´Jerusalemite families´ in the context of the Israeli occupation 209
Johannes Becker

Toward a renewed marginalization of the Palestinian refugees? Transformations of we-images, patterns of interpretation and established-outsider relations in the Palestinian society of the West Bank since the 1970s 236
Hendrik Hinrichsen

Palestinian women in Haifa-Resistance as empowerment 258
Nicole WitteTranscription symbols 281
Works cited 282
About the authors 306
Index 309

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Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses
Research into biography has historically focused almost wholly on the lives of people in the wealthier nations of the Global North. This book corrects that with a focus on the biographical histories of people-seen as part of larger groups or collectives, whether religious or political-from the Global South, with a particular focus on Africa and the Middle East. Taking the perspective of biographical research and figurational sociology, the essays gathered here break new ground in the study of biography.

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Gabriele Rosenthal ist Soziologin und Professorin für qualitative Forschungsmethoden an der Universität Göttingen. Artur Bogner ist Soziologe und arbeitet an der Universität Bayreuth in der Forschung über Prozesse der Deeskalation und Eskalation bewaffneter Konflikte im subsaharischen Afrika.

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