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Mixing methods and crossing boundaries in the study of international migration
[working paper]
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Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)
Abstract "Building on the transnationalism literature, I argue for multi-sited fieldwork in countries of migrants’ origin and destination and the removal of national blinders so that both domestic and international migrations are brought into the same frame for comparison. Such an approach can move beyond de... view more
"Building on the transnationalism literature, I argue for multi-sited fieldwork in countries of migrants’ origin and destination and the removal of national blinders so that both domestic and international migrations are brought into the same frame for comparison. Such an approach can move beyond description alone by amending the extended case method to engage theoretical research programs in ways that attend to the representativeness of a case study. The analytical fruit of these strategies is demonstrated with examples from the migration literature and ten years of ethnographic and survey fieldwork among Mexican migrants." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
migration; transnationalization; globalization; international migration; ethnography; field research; method; assimilation
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Research Design
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
26 p.
Series
COMCAD Working Papers, 73
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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