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Immigrant communities facing displacement have increasingly turned to social media as a platform to share their testimonies, connect to their communities, and build new support networks. Due to existing structural inequities, women face unique challenges, such as discrimination and violence, human trafficking, economic deprivation, and conflicting cultural norms. This is particularly true for immigrant and refugee women from the Global South to Europe, North America, and Australia. In this context, social media and digital technologies have increasingly served as powerful platforms for social justice and community building by providing marginalized groups with a venue to share testimonies and connect with their community of origin and other groups facing similar challenges. In these virtual communities, immigrant and refugee women can also find a collective voice to mobilize social and political activism on issues such as immigration policies, access to healthcare, challenges of motherhood, and gender-based violence. Digital Narratives of Trauma Among Immigrant and Refugee Women explores contemporary issues, by examining how narratives of resistance and survival in digital spaces illuminate the interconnectedness of migration, womanhood, displacement, and trauma within the fabric of human experience. It introduces the role of social media and digital testimonies in bringing about social change for historically marginalized women. Covering topics such as affective labor, intersectionality, and social justice, this book is an excellent resource for non-governmental organizational leaders, activists, federal agents, state agents, sociologists, social workers, professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, and more.

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Andrea Scapolo , Ph.D. from Indiana University, is an Associate Professor of Italian at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw (GA). His research focuses on the intersection between social movements, political ideology, and cultural production. His recent publications include the volume, Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures (Amsterdam University Press), coedited with Angela Porcarelli, Emory University; book chapters and journal articles on Antonio Gramsci (“Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy.” In Gramsci in the World. Roberto Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, eds., 2020), and the theater of Dario Fo and Franca Rame (“Maria/Medea/Ulrike: Figures of Destituent Power in the Feminist Theater of Franca Rame”, in K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts, n. 8 (1/2022), “Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s Politics of Theatre.” In Essays on Dario Fo. Antonio Scuderi, ed., 2019). Arturo Matute Castro is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, at Kennesaw State University. He received his MA and PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh, in addition to a MA in Hispanic Linguistics and a BA in Journalism (both at the Universidad de La Habana). From a multidisciplinary perspective, his research focuses on Cuban and Cuban American cultures and literatures, transnationalism, the Hispanic Caribbean diaspora, and Latinx postmemory narratives. His essay “(Dis)locación exílica y espacio (trans)nacional” was included in Rita Molinero and Yolanda Izquierdo’s monograph Reinaldo Arenas: La escritura como destino (2021). His scholarly work on contemporary Cuban and Latin American narratives has also appeared in journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, Variaciones Borges, Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature, Cuadernos del Sur, and Gramma. Sha Huang , Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, is an Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at Kennesaw State University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on culturally informed pedagogy, trauma, resilience, and healing through expressive arts. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including , , and . Her recent book chapters appear in (Routledge, 2023) and (Vernon Press, 2022). As a bilingual poet and visual artist, her creative work has been featured in journals such as , , and . Her poetry collection was published in 2021. Huang has participated in over a dozen juried and group exhibitions in the U.S. and China, including a solo exhibition, , held in Chengdu in 2024. She also leads Healing through Art workshops that integrate painting and reflective writing to support emotional awareness and recovery from relational trauma. Her creative, scholarly, and pedagogical practices are united by a commitment to cross-cultural dialogue and holistic healing. Anisah Bagasra , Ph.D. from Saybrook University, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University who specializes in behavioral health research in the Muslim American and African American faith communities. She teaches a wide range of psychology courses and mentors students engaged in undergraduate research with a focus on culturally competent research in minority communities. Specific research interests include Islamic Psychology, the impact of Islamophobia, teaching Death & Dying, and perceptions of mental illness. Her recent publications include three edited volumes, “Working with Muslim Clients in the Helping Professions”, and “The Changing Faces of Higher Education: From Boomers to Millennials” and ‘The Impact of HBCUs in the 21st Century’. She also conducts CE workshops in the area of religious and spiritual competencies for psychologists, conflict resolution, and community-based research and is an associate editor of the Journal of Spirituality in Clinical Practice. She has recently launched the Death, Dying & Bereavement Research Consortium to bring together researchers, academics, and community partners interested in addressing real world issues in the field of Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

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