Migration, Meaning, and Self-Representation

This conversation will examine contemporary migration and how migrants are understood and portrayed in different contexts. It will bring together critical, discourse-oriented approaches to studying representations of migrants and their own acts of self-representation. The session will further highlight new analytical tools for exploring migrants’ lived experiences, agency, and voice. Dr Ben Hudson will chair the conversation.

Professor Eva-Maria Graf

Eva-Maria Graf is a professor of applied linguistics at the English Department, at the University of Klagenfurt. Eva is working on, among other things, helping professional interactions with a special focus on coaching. She is a founder of linguistic coaching process research. Amongst other publications in this field, she has authored the first linguistic monograph on coaching: The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching.

Eva has been working as a coach for many years focusing on coaching in academia. She is also a senior coach and trainer. She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Coaching | Theory & Practice and is about the launch a new journal Coaching Science.

Professor Van Dijk’ Bio

Teun A. van Dijk is Founding Director of the Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona, since 2017. He was professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2004, and at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, until 2014.   

After earlier work on generative poetics, text grammar, and the psychology of text processing, his work since 1980 takes a more critical perspective and deals with discursive racism, news in the press, ideology, knowledge and context. He is the author of many articles and several books in most of these areas.  He founded six international journals, and his last monographs include Discourse and Knowledge (2014) and Antiracist Discourse (2012).

Dr Kinan Noah

Kinan is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, with a background in sociolinguistics and qualitative methodology. His research develops a new discursive approach to migration studies, building on the interplay between public and personal discourses to examine how migration reshapes senses of identity and belonging.

Drawing on discourse analysis and qualitative methodologies, Kinan explores how migrant narratives are produced and circulated across political debate, policy, media, and everyday life. Kinan’s research seeks to establish an alternative discourse that moves beyond crisis framings or humanitarian sentimentality, reframing migration as a shared process of meaning-making and societal storytelling.

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