Handbook of research methods in migration
By: edited by Carlos Vargas-Silva
Series: Elgar original reference; Elgar original reference
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9781849803113
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Methodology; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the relationship between methodology and methods / Stephen Castles; title: Migration research between positivistic scientism and relativism: a critical realist way out / Theodoros Iosifides; title: Migration, methods and innovation: a reconsideration of variation and conceptualization in research on foreign workers / David Bartram; title: Transnational - transregional - translocal: transcultural / Dirk Hoerder; title: Contemporary migration seen from the perspective of political economy: theoretical and methodological elements / Raúl Delgado Wise and Humberto Márquez Covarrubias; title: Interviewing techniques for migrant minority groups / Luis Sánchez-Ayala; title: Collecting, analysing and presenting migration histories / Jørgen Carling; title: Empirical methods in the economics of international immigration / Fernando A. Lozano and Michael D. Steinberger; title: Using longitudinal data to study migration and remittances / Edward Funkhouser; title: Measuring migration in multi-topic household surveys / Calogero Carletto, Alan de Brauw and Raka Banerjee; title: Migration and its measurement: towards a more robust map of bilateral flows / Ronald Skeldon; title: Experimental approaches in migration studies / David McKenzie and Dean Yang; title: Mapping movements: interdisciplinary approaches to migration research / Pablo S. Bose; title: Even a transnational social field must have its boundaries: methodological options, potentials and dilemmas for researching transnationalism / Paolo Boccagni; title: Mixing methods in research on diaspora policies / Alan Gamlen; title: Diasporas on the Web: new networks, new methodologies / Jonathan Crush ... [et al.]; title: Approaches to researching environmental change and migration: methodological considerations and field experiences from a global comparative survey project / Koko Warner; title: Chasing ghosts: researching illegality in migrant labour markets / Bridget Anderson, Ben Rogaly and Martin Ruhs; title: Using qualitative research methods in migration studies: a case study of asylum seekers fleeing gender-based persecution / Connie Oxford; title: The importance of accounting for variability in remittance income / Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo; title: Ethical challenges in research with vulnerable migrants / Ilse van Liempt and Veronika Bilger; title: A guide to managing large-scale migration research projects / Melissa Siegel; title: From dissertation to published research: so close, yet so far / Anna O. Law; title: What the textbooks don't tell you: moving from a research puzzle to publishing findings / Irene Bloemraad; title: Immigrants and 'American' franchises: experiences from the field / Jennifer Parker Talwar; title: In the factories and on the streets: studying Asian and Latino garment workers in New York City / Margaret M. Chin; title: Three mistakes and corrections: on reflective adaptation in qualitative data collection and analysis / Johanna Shih.