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This book examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally, showing how interdisciplinary, self-reflexive, fieldwork-based approaches can provide insights into the ways in which which migrants take part in producing their transnational worlds.
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Contents
FiguresContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: 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 PowerChapter 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 RelationsChapter 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 EmbodimentChapter 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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About the author
Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Ayaka Yoshimizu, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia
Daniel Ahadi, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Summary
This book examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally, showing how interdisciplinary, self-reflexive, fieldwork-based approaches can provide insights into the ways in which which migrants take part in producing their transnational worlds.
