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.
Series Editors Preface: Insider Research on Migration and Mobility;
Introduction, Lejla Voloder; Part I Dimensions of Insiderness;
Chapter 1
Negotiating Aboriginal Part icipation in Research, Michele Lobo;
Chapter 2
Cosmopolitan Engagement in Researching Race Relations in New Zealand, Farida
Fozdar;
Chapter 3 On the Tide Between Being an Insider and Outsider, Ba?ak
Bilecen;
Chapter 4 Conducting Qualitative Research, Christof Van Mol; Part II
Researching Home and Community;
Chapter 5 Behind the Emic Lines, Hariz
Halilovich;
Chapter 6 Close, Closer, Closest, Efrat Tzadik-Fallik;
Chapter 7
Emotive Connections, Derya Ozkul; Part III Producing Self, Producing Others;
Chapter 8 Between Suspicion and Trust, Petra Andits;
Chapter 9 Interrupting
Anonymity, Angela Lehmann;
Chapter 10 Black on Black, Virginia Mapedzahama,
Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo;
Chapter 11 Academic Intercultural Encounters and
Cosmopolitan Knowledge Translation, Liudmila Kirpitchenko;
Lejla Voloder is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, Australia. Liudmila Kirpitchenko is Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University, Australia.
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