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This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally. Based on research with undocumented migrants, temporary workers, refugees, international students, and those who, having received citizenship status find their lives to be discursively and legally restricted, it shows how interdisciplinary fieldwork-based approaches can provide detailed accounts of migrants' voices and their conditions of existence, offering insights into the ways in which they understand and take part in producing their transnational worlds. Applying critical, self-reflexive methodological approaches that challenge assumptions about who has the authority to produce knowledge and what types of knowledge have the authority of truth, Migration and the Politics of Methodology will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography, and communication and cultural studies with interests in research methods and migration.
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Introduction: Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants' Perspectives by Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu, and Daniel Ahadi
Section 1: Community-based Projects: Collaborative Research and Questions of Power
Chapter 1: Decentring Media and Recentring People: Politics and Ethics of Doing Feminist Ethnography on Migrant Workers' Mediated Activism by Siyuan Yin
Chapter 2: Building Solidarity between Im/migrants and the Local Population: Lessons from a Community Project in a Remote Region of Quebec by Jorge Frozzini
Chapter 3: The Tayybeh Turn: How Food and Kindness Changed Me as a Researcher—An Interview with Adel Iskandar
Chapter 4: Embodying Affective Fieldwork with Internal Migrant Women in Ecuador: Methodological Considerations by Belen Febres-Cordero
Section 2: Problems of Ethics and Power: Questioning Narratives and Relations
Chapter 5: Responsible to Whom? Informal Relationality and Community-engagement in Applied Forced Migration Research Ethics by Erin Goheen-Glanville
Chapter 6: Criminalizing "Chinese" Ethnic Ride-Hailing: The Yellow Peril and Research Ethics by Yijia Zhang
Chapter 7: Research Asylum Seekers and Community-based Art as an "Ethnographic Outsider": Extended Fieldwork, Resocialization and Academic versus Relational Understandings of Forced Migration by Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Section 3: Negotiating Spatial Dynamics: Fieldwork, Power, and Embodiment
Chapter 8: Walking in the South: Understanding the Researcher as a Site of Embodied Knowledge by Marcos Moldes
Chapter 9: Re-imagining Migration and Communication Studies through Fieldwork in Transnational Yokohama by Ayaka Yoshimizu
Chapter 10: Not Just Immigrants: Exploring Power Relations as Heterotopic Experiences through Fieldwork Research by Elisa Beatriz Ramírez Hernández and Ângela Cristina Salgueiro Marques
Chapter 11: The Unpacking of "Go back to where you came from...": Reflections of the Tormented Mind of an "Othered" Subject by Daniel Ahadi
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