Methodologies on the Move
The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research
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Methodologies on the Move
The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research
About this book
This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called 'methodological nationalism' within empirical studies on migration. They address two main challenges: how to contextualize the empirical research field; and how to deal with national and ethnic categorizations within the empirical studies.
Methodologies on the Move outlines, first of all, a new epistemological basis for migration research, which is pinpointing the relational concept of space. Second, building on the multi-sited method of ethnography, it provides detailed insights into novel qualitative and quantitative research designs. Third, it presents innovative data collection methods on geographic and virtual mobility, and on cross-border social practices. This volume transcends the early criticisms of 'methodological nationalism' in migration research and suggests both general methodological lines as well as helpful tools for empirical analysis.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. De-naturalizing the national in research methodologies: key concepts of transnational studies in migration
- 2. A comparativist manifesto for international migration studies
- 3. National numbers for transnational relations? Challenges of integrating quantitative methods into research on transnational labour market relations
- 4. Following the dead beyond the ‘nation’: a map for transnational Alevi funerary routes from Europe to Turkey
- 5. How to ‘catch’ floating populations? Research and the fixing of migration in space and time
- 6. Moving ethnography online: researching Brazilian migrants’ online togetherness
- 7. Transnational dynamics in researching migrants: self-reflexivity and boundary-drawing in fieldwork
- Index