Full Description
This book provides readers with practical, culturally aware and engaging ways to research migrant culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Through the diverse disciplinary perspectives of Communication Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Education, Business, and Data Science, the case studies documented in this book offer readers effective methodologies leading to deep and nuanced knowledge of CALD migrants and the communities they belong to. This book looks at research design, including insider-outsider perspectives, recruitment, data collection (ethnographic, individual, and focus group interviews, non-intrusive observations, artifacts, quantitative, data scraping, online, face-to-face and so on), data analysis, conceptual and theoretical frameworks, communication of research and research translation. It describes and reflects on appropriate methodologies for CALD migrant people. With its rich, insightful, and practical examples, this book is a necessary reference for anyone researching the lived experience of migrants in multicultural settings.
Contents
Chapter 1 - Setting the scene: researching culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and their communities in multicultural societies.- Chapter 2 - Organizational research on vulnerable workers: the role of researchers and context.- Chapter 3 - Researching older Chinese migrants' digital media use in Australia: reflecting on the role of the researcher.- Chapter 4 - Nothing about us without us: respectfully engaging migrant communities and researchers as a privileged scholar.- Chapter 5 - Multilingualism in community research: complexities and opportunities.- Chapter 6 - Reconfiguring the wheel: inclusive research methodologies in a migratory world.- Chapter 7 - Amplifying the voices of culturally and linguistically diverse young people: exploring voice as a methodological tool in research.- Chapter 8 - Meaningful work for migrant workers: a research agenda.- Chapter 9 - The future is diversity.
