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Insider research on migration and mobility : international perspectives on researcher positioning / Lejla Voloder and Liudmila Kirpitchenko.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voloder, Lejla.
- Series:
- Studies in Migration and Diaspora
- Studies in migration and diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Research--Methodology.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration--Research--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together the latest international scholarship in the sociology and anthropology of migration, this volume explores the complexities, joys and frustrations of conducting 'insider' research. The book offers analyses of key methodological, ethical and epistemological challenges faced by migration researchers as they question the ways in which they come to identify with their research topic or their participants.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface:Insider Research on Migration and Mobility; Introduction Insiderness in Migration and Mobility Research: Conceptual Considerations; PART I Dimensions of Insiderness; 1 Negotiating Aboriginal Participation in Research: Dilemmas and Opportunities; 2 Cosmopolitan Engagement in Researching Race Relations in New Zealand; 3 On the Tide Between Being an Insider and Outsider; 4 Conducting Qualitative Research: Dancing a Tango between Insider - and Outsiderness; PART II Researching Home and Community
- 5 Behind the Emic Lines:Ethics and Politics of Insiders' Ethnography 6 Close, Closer, Closest: Participant Observation at Home; 7 Emotive Connections: Insider Research with Turkish/Kurdish Alevi Migrants in Germany; PART III Producing Self, Producing Others; 8 Between Suspicion and Trust: Fieldwork in the Australian-Hungarian Community; 9 Interrupting Anonymity: the Researcher in an Expatriate Community; 10 Black on Black; 11 Academic Intercultural Encounters and Cosmopolitan Knowledge Translation; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-58877-3
- 1-317-11602-X
- 1-317-11601-1
- 1-4094-6322-2
- 9781315588773
- OCLC:
- 871634889
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