Survey Research among Middle Eastern Immigrant Groups in the United States

Iranians in Los Angeles

Bibliographic Data

ID11568451
AuthorsMehdi Bozorgmehr (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Georges Sabagh (University of California, Los Angeles)
Year1989
Volume23
Issue1
Pages23-34
Publication date1989-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddle East Studies Association Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-3184 • E-ISSN: 2329-3233
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0026318400021015
OpenAlexW2586148674
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited5

Immigration research poses special problems, but survey researchers studying immigrant groups rarely write about the problems they encounter in the design and conduct of their surveys (Hurh and Kim 1984). Three areas of particular importance are: (1) securing the approval of community leaders or persons of influence; (2) identifying adequate frames for relatively small immigrant populations, from which random samples can be selected; and (3) conducting the fieldwork, including recruiting and training interviewers fluent in immigrant languages. The main objective of this paper is to describe various stages of our recently completed survey of Iranians in Los Angeles (see Figure 1). We pay particular attention to the problems we have faced in carrying out this study, and how resolving some of them reshaped our original research design

Criminology · Immigration · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Survey research · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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