Presentation as part of workshop - Methods in Dialogue - Researching Migration Most qualitative research on migrants and refugees is based on a concept of ethnic, or minority, or diasporic “community” and focuses on a specific neighborhood or set of “community organizations” or leaders. Often data from such a sample in a gateway city is generalized to an entire nation-state. I explore some of the problems with relying on this “ethnic lens,” and the methodological nationalism it reflects. Drawing on my ethnographic field work in several different cities, I explore alternative approaches to the study of migrant settlement and transnationality
The presentation considered the methodological challenges that will come from pitting the micro loca...
Migration and integration research has been institutionalized over the last few decades. However, an...
textabstractIf scholars of migration had to pick one word to describe the nature of contemporary mig...
This paper critiques migration scholars’ reliance on the ethnic group as a unit of analysis. It argu...
Ethnographers’ long-standing interest in migration has taken on new significance as researchers grap...
This chapter promotes transnational perspective in ethnological research on labour migrants and refu...
Ethnicity paradigm in migration research - looking at migrants as ‘members’ of ethnic communities an...
The author argues that ethnographic insights into migrants' personal relations achieved through obje...
The focus of the study is one of the frequently emerging topics of social science research: the inve...
Migration can be considered a human strategy to improve life and can be defined as a natural behavio...
The article examines auto-ethnography (as a form of methodological nationalism), a conceptual tenden...
Methodological pragmatism is more often than not employed in ethnographic enterprises, but not often...
Methodological pragmatism is more often than not employed in ethnographic enterprises, but not often...
"Building on the transnationalism literature, I argue for multi-sited fieldwork in countries of migr...
This article draws on an ongoing self-reflexive debate in German migration research. It is considere...
The presentation considered the methodological challenges that will come from pitting the micro loca...
Migration and integration research has been institutionalized over the last few decades. However, an...
textabstractIf scholars of migration had to pick one word to describe the nature of contemporary mig...
This paper critiques migration scholars’ reliance on the ethnic group as a unit of analysis. It argu...
Ethnographers’ long-standing interest in migration has taken on new significance as researchers grap...
This chapter promotes transnational perspective in ethnological research on labour migrants and refu...
Ethnicity paradigm in migration research - looking at migrants as ‘members’ of ethnic communities an...
The author argues that ethnographic insights into migrants' personal relations achieved through obje...
The focus of the study is one of the frequently emerging topics of social science research: the inve...
Migration can be considered a human strategy to improve life and can be defined as a natural behavio...
The article examines auto-ethnography (as a form of methodological nationalism), a conceptual tenden...
Methodological pragmatism is more often than not employed in ethnographic enterprises, but not often...
Methodological pragmatism is more often than not employed in ethnographic enterprises, but not often...
"Building on the transnationalism literature, I argue for multi-sited fieldwork in countries of migr...
This article draws on an ongoing self-reflexive debate in German migration research. It is considere...
The presentation considered the methodological challenges that will come from pitting the micro loca...
Migration and integration research has been institutionalized over the last few decades. However, an...
textabstractIf scholars of migration had to pick one word to describe the nature of contemporary mig...
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