Hamid Boudiaf
Email: 2509721B@student.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Transmitting and Preserving Kabyle Language and Oral Culture beyond Homeland: An Ethnographic Approach
Research Summary
Thesis Title:Between Identity Reconstruction and Home Remaking: Kabyles’ Immigration Experiences and Practices in Scotland
My thesis is a study of immigration experiences of Kabyles, a sub-ethnic Berber group present in Algeria, as an ethnic minority in Scotland. The study explores how the Kabyles reconstruct a sense of self and a feeling of home in the Scottish multicultural transnational space and investigates the different ways they maintain local and transnational connections and the importance of these ties in their acculturation process as well as in preserving attachments to homeland while forging new social and emotional attachments in the host society. Through the adoption of reflexive ethnographic methods, I analyse and report the participants’ immigration narratives after immersing myself into their community activities for a period of over a year. This study stems from my interest in the ways diasporans deal with the challenges of immigration and reflects my own experienced subjectivities.
Supervisors
Teaching
- Graduate Teaching Assistant in French language