Insider Research on Migration and Mobility: International Perspectives on Researcher Positioning
Editor(s): Lejla Voloder & Liudmila Kirpitchenko
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 220 pages
Genre: Academic / Methodology & Methods, Non-Fiction / Anthropology, Sociology, Migration & Refugee Studies, Ethnic Studies, Social Science
Area: Australia, New Zealand, Germany
People: Turk, Kurds, The Aboriginal Australians, Black People, Hungarian
Topic: Insider & Outsider Researcher, Ethics & Morality, Research, Research Methods, Bottom-Up Research, Qualitative Research, Epistemology, Scholarship & Knowledge, Culture & Society, Migration, Mobility & Immobility, Diaspora, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Ethnic & Ethnicity, Politics & Power, Identity, Race, Religion, Cosmopolitanism, Interculturalism, Internationalism, Trust, Emotions & Feelings, The Notion of Home
With an increasing proportion of migration and mobility field studies being conducted by migrants and members of ethnic minorities in ‘home’ contexts, the implications of ‘insider research’ are increasingly subject critical scrutiny. Researchers who may share migration experiences or cultural, ethnic, linguistic or religious identities with their participants are exploring the means, ethics and politics of mobilizing ’insider capital’ for the purpose of gaining access to and representing research participants.
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. Addressing questions of identity and categorization, ethics and methodology, epistemology and situated knowledge, Insider Research on Migration and Mobility will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration, mobilities, diaspora studies and ethnic and racial identities, as well as those interested in qualitative research design and analysis.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction: Insiderness in Migration and Mobility Research: Conceptual Considerations — Lejla Voloder
PART I. DIMENSIONS OF INSIDERNESS
1. Negotiating Aboriginal Participation in Research: Dilemmas and Opportunities — Michele Lobo
2. Cosmopolitan Engagement in Researching Race Relations in New Zealand — Farida Fozdar
3. On the Tide Between Being an Insider and Outsider: Experiences from Research on International Student Mobility in Germany — Başak Bilecen
4.Conducting Qualitative Research: Dancing a Tango between Insider — and Outsiderness — Christof Van Mol, Rilke Mahieu, Helene Marie-Lou De Clerck, Edith Piqueray, Joris Wauters, François Levrau, Els Vanderwaeren and Joris Michielsen
PART II. RESEARCHING HOME AND COMMUNITY
5. Behind the Emic Lines: Ethics and Politics of Insiders’ Ethnography — Hariz Halilovich
6. Close, Closer, Closest: Participant Observation at Home — Efrat Tzadik-Fallik
7. Emotive Connections: Insider Research with Turkish/Kurdish Alevi Migrants in Germany — Derya Ozkul
PART III. PRODUCING SELF, PRODUCING OTHERS
8. Between Suspicion and Trust: Fieldwork in the Australian-Hungarian Community — Petra Andits
9. Interrupting Anonymity: The Researcher in an Expatriate Community — Angela Lehmann
10. Black on Black: Insider Positionality and the Black African Migrant Research Experience in Australia — Virginia Mapedzahama, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo
11. Academic Intercultural Encounters and Cosmopolitan Knowledge Translation — Liudmila Kirpitchenko
Index
Lejla Voloder is a Socio-Cultural Anthropologist with scholarly interests in research methodologies and in the geopolitical and environmental forces that impact upon migration and settlement. Voloder was awarded her PhD in Anthropology from Monash University, Australia, in 2009. Her dissertation offered a critical study of multiculturalism with an exploration of the relationship between hegemonic discourses, dominant representations and the substantive realities of multicultural spaces. Her postdoctoral research investigates contemporary transnational practices in Turkey that promote practices of multicultural governance that extend beyond Western, secular paradigms. Voloder has published in the areas of autoethnography, insider methods, multiculturalism and the interplays between secular and religious invocations of citizenship.
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Liudmila Kirpitchenko is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Previously, she was awarded a prestigious Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and was a Visiting Scholar at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) University in Rome, Italy, in 2011–2012. Liudmila earned a PhD in Sociology from Monash University, in 2010. Her PhD thesis examined interplays of cultural capital in the processes of social inclusion of skilled migrants in Australia, Canada and Italy. To conduct independent fieldwork research on-site, Liudmila was awarded Visiting Research Fellowships at the University of Ottawa in Canada and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 2006–2012, Liudmila conducted research and taught sociology and anthropology at Monash University.
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