STORYTELLING: BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER
Sharma, Shobhana (2019)
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019112522344
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019112522344
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Shobhana Sharma
Storytelling: Bringing People Together
Storytelling as a tool to facilitate integration
49 pages and 3 Appendix
November 2019
Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Social Services
Bachelor of Social Services
This research-oriented thesis generates from the curiosity about the impact of storytelling in a migrant’s life experience. This thesis tries to find out whether storytelling supports the integration process of migrants into a host community or not. Also, if storytelling helps the host community to integrate into the changes brought about by the newcomers. This research was carried out in collaboration with Universum Ry. This is a qualitative research conducted by interviewing the table hosts (migrant members) of story sharing universum.
Story Sharing Universum is one of the projects of Universum Ry which was commenced in year 2014 with the idea of bringing people from different background and nationalities together in order to get to know each other and bridge the communication gap present in the Finnish society.
The data collected from interviews were analysed using Braun & Clarke’s six-phase approach. The thematic analysis of data resulted in supporting the research question that the storytelling does, in fact, support a migrant’s integration into a host community in identification, interactive, cultural and structural perspective of social integration.
The result shows that storytelling helps an individual integrate into the host community in social level by exploring the sense of belongingness, finding similarities between people from different background, making connections by narrowing the communicational gap between migrants and host community, and clearing the misconception and stereotypes of cultures. This eventually leads towards the development of an inclusive and divergent community.
Keywords: Integration, Storytelling, Story sharing, Migrants, Art-based method
Storytelling: Bringing People Together
Storytelling as a tool to facilitate integration
49 pages and 3 Appendix
November 2019
Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Social Services
Bachelor of Social Services
This research-oriented thesis generates from the curiosity about the impact of storytelling in a migrant’s life experience. This thesis tries to find out whether storytelling supports the integration process of migrants into a host community or not. Also, if storytelling helps the host community to integrate into the changes brought about by the newcomers. This research was carried out in collaboration with Universum Ry. This is a qualitative research conducted by interviewing the table hosts (migrant members) of story sharing universum.
Story Sharing Universum is one of the projects of Universum Ry which was commenced in year 2014 with the idea of bringing people from different background and nationalities together in order to get to know each other and bridge the communication gap present in the Finnish society.
The data collected from interviews were analysed using Braun & Clarke’s six-phase approach. The thematic analysis of data resulted in supporting the research question that the storytelling does, in fact, support a migrant’s integration into a host community in identification, interactive, cultural and structural perspective of social integration.
The result shows that storytelling helps an individual integrate into the host community in social level by exploring the sense of belongingness, finding similarities between people from different background, making connections by narrowing the communicational gap between migrants and host community, and clearing the misconception and stereotypes of cultures. This eventually leads towards the development of an inclusive and divergent community.
Keywords: Integration, Storytelling, Story sharing, Migrants, Art-based method