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Auteur(s) : Iosifides, Theodoros  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Qualitative methods in migration studies [Texte imprimé] : a critical realist perspective / Theodoros Iosifides

Publication : Farnham ; Burlington (Vt.) : Ashgate, cop. 2011

Description matérielle : x, 266 p. ; 24 cm

Comprend : Introduction ; Contemporary migration ; Theoretical and epistemological issues in qualitative research : the case for critical realism ; Critical realism, social research methodology and qualitative migration research ; Conclusions : critical realism, qualitative migration research and politics making.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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, this 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

Sujet(s) : Émigration et immigration -- Recherche -- Méthodologie  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Recherche qualitative  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781409402220 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1409402223 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9781409402237 (ebook). - ISBN 1409402231 (ebook)

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