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Considering ethics and power relations in a qualitative study exploring experiences of divorce among British-Indian adult children
[working paper]
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Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)
Abstract "This paper outlines the need for the critical scrutiny of ethics and power relations embedded in
the research process, particularly when researching minority ethnic communities. Research with
minority groups within institutional and structural contexts is challenging. It demands close engagement
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"This paper outlines the need for the critical scrutiny of ethics and power relations embedded in
the research process, particularly when researching minority ethnic communities. Research with
minority groups within institutional and structural contexts is challenging. It demands close engagement
for recruitment, participation of minority community members for research. in addition,
critical interpretation and reflexivity on part of researchers is vital to ensure that knowledge
generated is not biased, or harmful that pathologises minority groups.
This paper systematically considers issues of recruitment, participation, and interpretation
throughout the research process through a qualitative research study carried out with British-
Indian adult children of divorce. In doing so, it considers the strategies used and critical discusses
their outcomes. It does not present findings but considers the experiences of conducting
this research within the larger contexts of inquiry focussing on minority ethnic groups. The research
processes are reflexively considered by the author and emphasises the need to consider
power as dynamic relationship by engaging with the positions of the researcher and the researched,
differing agendas, gender, cultural and linguistic influences within the interview that
have shaped the data obtained.
The paper concludes that research with minority ethnic communities is important and critical but
needs to be conducted in ways that are cultural sensitivity, involve communities, provides opportunities
for participation. Due to their minority status, research with this groups presents a
greater need for analytical transparency-validation and critical researcher reflexivity." [author's abstract]... view less
Keywords
Indian; Great Britain; divorce; ethnic group; minority; survey; participant; response behavior
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
28 p.
Series
COMCAD Working Papers, 76
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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