The Role of Intimate Relationship Status, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Doing Fieldwork among Sexual-Racial Minority Refugees
An Intersectional Methodology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2291920 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Karimi (0000-0002-9470-0782, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 971-992 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soin.12316 |
| OpenAlex | W2964037541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 86 |
Feminist researchers from a range of disciplines have called for consolidation of intersectionality as a methodology. In this article, I contribute to the literature on intracategorical intersectional methodology by drawing on my experiences of conducting fieldwork with 19 gay male Iranian refugees in Canada. Also, by merging the research on intersectionality, sexuality, and refugee studies, I take intersectionality beyond its traditional application on the lives of women of color. I particularly focus on relations between intimate relationship status and insider status, sexuality and internal gatekeepers, and ethnicity and obtaining signed consent forms. Assuming that ethnographers, albeit marginally, participate in or become part of their participant group during fieldwork, I demonstrated the utility of intracategorical intersectional methodology for a systematic examination of power dynamics and the interactions between participants' and researchers' markers of identity. I argue that intracategorical intersectionality challenges static definitions of insiderness in qualitative research and provides researchers with nuanced and non-hegemonic analyses of research process
Ethnic group · Hegemony · Human sexuality · Insider · Intersectionality · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Harassed
Refugees and Exile
Taboo
Invisible Families
The Interpretation of Cultures
Assimilation in American life
Ethnography
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Feminism and Method
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa
Doing Feminist Research
Researching Women's Lives From A Feminist Perspective
Telling Sexual Stories
Black Sexual Politics
Taking it Like a Man
Hamjensgara belongs to family; exclusion and inclusion of male homosexuality in relation to family structure in Iran
Gender and Sexuality Among Immigrant Iranians in Canada
Iranian homosexuals; social identity formation and question of femininity
Anthropology from the Bones
Sexuality and integration
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies
Intersectionality as Method
Reflections on ethical problems encountered in field research on Mexican male homosexuality
Colonized subjects and their emigration experiences. The case of Iranian students and their integration strategies in Western Europe
Researching refugees
Have You Got a Boyfriend or are You Single?’
Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment
Refugee Research Methodologies
Beyond 'Do No Harm
The Causes of Mistrust amongst Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Addressing Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Research with Refugee-background Young People
Human Agency and the Meaning of Informed Consent
Doing Intersectional Analysis
The field as a landscape of desire
Desiring more
Sexualizing Research
Sex With Informants as Deviant Behavior
Membership Roles in Field Research
When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition
Out” in the field. Reflecting on the dilemmas of insider status on data collection and conducting interviews with gay men
Criminologicalverstehen
Stories as Lived Experience
Intersectionality and Feminist Politics
Getting Personal
Spotting the Invisible Man
Into the Dark Heart of Ethnography
The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research
Qualitative Research With Small Connected Communities
It's Easier that you're a Girl and that you're Asian
Re-Thinking Intersectionality
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
From origins to destinations
A critical examination of the use of interpreters in the qualitative research process
Queer asylum seekers
Learning from the Outsider Within
You Still Takin' Notes?' Fieldwork and Problems of Informed Consent
Reversing the gaze
Now I see it, now I don't
Reflexivity
Interviews as encounters
A difficult negotiation
Ethnic-matching in qualitative research
The risk of 'going observationalist
Interviewing men
Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives
The Implications of an Ethnographer's Sexuality
Ethics, Reflexivity, and "Ethically Important Moments" in Research
Doing Intersectionality
An Intersectional Analysis of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People's Evaluations of Anti-Queer Violence
"Becoming a "Trusted Outsider
Silence, Power, and Inequality
The Sociology of Refugee Migration
Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas
Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research
Intersections of Sex and Power in Research on Prostitution
Feminist Methodology
The Complexity of Intersectionality
Insiders and Outsiders
Explaining religious differences in immigrants' gender role attitudes
Rape and Racial Appraisals
The Burden of Geopolitical Stigma
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |