Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores the challenges and opportunities involved in conducting research with members of immigrant, refugee and other minoritized communities. Through first-hand reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied linguistics, educational research and anthropological investigations of language, literacy and culture. By critically reflecting on the power and limits of university-based research conducted on behalf of, or in collaboration with, members of local communities and by exploring the complicated relationships, dynamics and understandings that emerge, the chapters collectively demonstrate the value of reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of the research process, including the ethical and emotional dimensions of participating in collaborative research.
Trade ReviewThis gem of a book offers vivid and trenchant insights regarding the ongoing, ubiquitous ethical challenges inherent in qualitative research. The chapters reveal research dilemmas, scrutinize how linguistic and social inequalities shape research processes, and explore more transparent and humanizing approaches to data collection, analysis, and presentation.
* Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA *
Finally we have a book that engages the messiness of research with, and in the service of, immigrant, refugee, and other minoritized communities. Addressing everyday challenges that emerge at all stages of the research process, this volume offers a vision for designing research that is responsive to the particular contexts of these communities.
* Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA *
Table of ContentsPart I: Language, Culture and Identity
Chapter 1. Chatwara S. Duran: “I Have So Many Things to Tell You, but I Don’t Know English”: Linguistic Challenges and Language Brokering
Chapter 2. Ayfer K. Gokalp: Revisiting our Understandings in Ethnographic Research
Chapter 3. Christopher Browder: The Trouble with Operationalizing People: My Research with Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
Chapter 4. Emily Feuerherm: A Researcher’s Coming-of-Age Through Participatory Action Research: The Intersection of Cultures, Identities and Institutions
Part II: Researcher Roles and Reciprocity
Chapter 5. Rosalva Lagunas: Doing Ethnographic Research as an Insider-Outsider: Reflections on Building Relationships and Doing Reciprocity
Chapter 6. Sarah Young Knowles: Researcher-Participant Relationships in Cross-Language Research: Becoming Cultural and Linguistic Insiders
Chapter 7. Nimo Abdi: Researching From the Margin: Challenges and Tensions of Doing Research within One’s Own Refugee Community
Chapter 8. Daisy E. Fredricks: Working Towards and Humanizing Research Stance: Reflections on Modifying the Interview Process
Part III: Relationships, Ethics, Power and Equity
Chapter 9. Katie Bernstein: Ethics in Practice and Answerability in Complex, Multiparticipant Studies
Chapter 10. Nicole Pettitt: Weaving Reciprocity in Research with(In) Immigrant and Refugee Communities
Chapter 11. Kristen Perry: Anonymity, Vulnerability and Informed Consent: An Ethical-Methodological Tale
Chapter 12. Katherine E. Morelli and Doris S. Warriner: The Emotional Dimensions of Qualitative Community-Driven Research: How Interactions and Relationships Shape Processes of Knowledge Production
Chapter 13. Martha Bigelow, Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Mikow Hang, Luis Ortega, Shannon Pergament, Amy Shanafelt and Michele Allen: Perspectives on Power and Equity in Community Based Participatory Action Research Projects
