Cultural "insiders" and the issue of positionality in qualitative migration research: Moving "across" and moving "along" researcher-participant divides

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Ganga, Deianira ^a   Scott, Sam ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insider; Interview; Migration; Positionality; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745314597     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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