Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives (1) (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

By: Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Ayaka Yoshimizu and Daniel Ahadi

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Synopsis: This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally. Based on research with undocumented migrants, temporary workers, refugees, international students, and those who, having received citizenship status find their lives to be discursively and legally restricted, it shows how interdisciplinary fieldwork-based approaches can provide detailed accounts of migrants’ voices and their conditions of existence, offering insights into the ways in which they understand and take part in producing their transnational worlds. Applying critical, self-reflexive methodological approaches that challenge assumptions about who has the authority to produce knowledge and what types of knowledge have the authority of truth, Migration and the Politics of Methodology will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography, and communication and cultural studies with interests in research methods and migration.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 306 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040338902
Related ISBNs:: 9781040338889, 9781032446967, 9781003373469
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 05/30/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu, and Daniel Ahadi
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Edited by:: Ayaka Yoshimizu
Edited by:: Daniel Ahadi