Young People, Exile and Digital Storytelling. Identity, Schooling and Migration
Schools in Québec are marked by the cultural diversity that students with an immigrant background bring. Some of these students have experienced exile. However, these different voices do not seem well-represented in educational research. This paper focuses on a project that explores identity issues involved in the educational mobility and migration of three young people with refugee status. The data from this research, based on a participatory workshop leading to the creation of digital stories, comes from qualitative methodological tools including individual interviews, a focus group and various artistic creations, including digital stories. The results offer insights into uniqueness of the stories, also of singularities on the schooling, sometimes about forms of rupture, even of exclusion. The digital stories allow a personal reading of the trajectories of these young people and highlight the emotional burden of forced immigration.