Migration and the Politics of Methodology

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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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

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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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