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Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies - A Critical Realist Perspective (Paperback)
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Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies - A Critical Realist Perspective (Paperback)
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Recent years have witnessed growing interest in a series of issues
related to migration, including identity formation and change, the
role of social capital and social networks, ethnic discrimination,
racism and xenophobia, socio-political participation and
mobilisation and the complex nature of the causal mechanisms linked
to migration - issues that are better highlighted and investigated
using qualitative methods. Moving away from the quantitative and
empiricist-positivist approaches that have often characterised
migration research, Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies
explores in a concise but comprehensive way the key issues involved
in researching migratory phenomena in a qualitative manner. It
addresses themes including the basic characteristics of
contemporary migration, qualitative research into social processes
related to migration, and the relationship between theory, research
design and practice. Drawing upon empirical case studies and a
series of real and hypothetical examples, the book develops a
critical realist alternative both to empiricism and interpretivist,
social constructionist and post-structuralist relativism in
qualitative migration research. With special emphasis on the
meta-theoretical dimensions of qualitative research practice, this
volume connects qualitative findings to policy formation and
'politics making', exploring the multiple dimensions involved in
researching migratory phenomena, such as ontology, epistemology,
methodology, ethics and research practice. As such, it will be of
interest to students and researchers in migration across the social
sciences.
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