Many Faces of Omar: Integrative Multimodal Analysis of a Story of Migration Found on YouTube: Focus on Positioning

Sarali Gintsburg () and Orit Sônia Waisman ()
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Sarali Gintsburg: University of Navarra
Orit Sônia Waisman: David Yellin College of Education

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2024, vol. 25, issue 2, No 10, 695-713

Abstract: Abstract With this paper, we aim to look into the issue of identities among the immigrant population living in the West using an integrative multimodal approach. Although this topic has been in fashion for quite some time, most studies analyze either the political or mass-media discourse related to immigrants or reflect on how immigrants see themselves, on the basis of textual analysis of immigrants’ narratives and interviews. Our study takes a different approach and analyzes a video recorded and published on YouTube, focusing not only on the text but also on by analyzing non-verbal manifestations of changing positions on the part of the narrator. In particular, we examine identities/positions that the main protagonist, a Moroccan immigrant named Omar, assumes in the course of the story. We show how one particular gesture (pointing), coupled with other verbal and non-verbal markers, can signal a change of identity/position.

Keywords: Migration; Identities; Pointing; Positioning theory; Arabic language; Multimodal analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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