From rapport to collaboration...and beyond? Revisiting field relationships in an ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants

Qualitative Research

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 736-754

  Boccagni, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

collaboration; Ecuadorian migration; ethnography; interests; opportunities; relations with informants; respect

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555184954     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794111415955     Document Type: Article

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