But What Is Interesting Is the Story of Why and How Migration Happened

  • Carla De Tona Trinity College Dublin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-7.3.143
Keywords: qualitative research, migrant/minority researcher, reflexivity, power relations in the field, gender, narratives

Abstract

Qualitative methodologies in migration studies are bringing new emphasis on the old question of the role and positionality of the researcher. The researcher with an experience of migration and as a member of a minority community is positioned in a qualitative research process in a particularly interesting and revealing way. We ask Ronit LENTIN and Hassan BOUSETTA to consider the implications of such a positionality. The questions raised are focusing on their experiences as migrant/minority researchers, with particular emphasis placed on gender and on the potential of a reflexive engagement with positionality to disrupt asymmetrical power relations in the field. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0603139

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Author Biography

Carla De Tona, Trinity College Dublin
Carle DE TONA is responsible for the interviews on the state of the art of qualitative migration research in Europe, published in this FQS issue. She is completing her PhD on Italian migrant women in Ireland in Trinity College Dublin. She teaches in the field of migration studies and is research assistant for a project on Global Network in the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College.
Published
2006-05-31
How to Cite
De Tona, C. (2006). But What Is Interesting Is the Story of Why and How Migration Happened. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-7.3.143
Issue
Vol. 7 No. 3 (2006): Qualitative Migration Research in Contemporary Europe
Section
Thematic Issue

Copyright (c) 2006 Carla De Tona

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