Introduction
摘要
This study is built on the inquiry, “How is refugee ‘becoming’ experienced in dual spatiality and multiple temporalities?” Connections of past, future, and present in refugee narratives help explore the transformative impacts of dislocation. Analysis shows how refugees respond in different ways to reframe their identities. This methodology chapter explains how a blend of refugees’ unique experiences and social interaction-based meaning-making surfaces in these pages as a dialogue that enriches our understanding of the multiple ways refugees experience themselves. The epistemological core of social research based on fieldwork and interviews is discussed in detail, where individual voices, along with the author eye-camera that is involved in conceptual meaning-making are scrutinized. The chapter starts with introducing the dialogical and intersubjective explorations that ground the epistemology of the research. Methodological discussions then move to cinematographic apparatus to position the author as the operator of the camera and the conscious effort to unconceal the existence of the operator and the lens she uses to operate it.