Living Insider Positionality with Co-ethnics in Everyday Life
An Autoethnography of a Black Refugee Academic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12955327 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A I Tewolde (0000-0001-9769-654X, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-119 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Diaspora (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1872-5457 • E-ISSN: 1872-5465 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18725465-bja10033 |
| OpenAlex | W4380479980 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
In this article I reflect on how I was perceived by members of my own ethnic community in Pretoria, South Africa, in everyday interactions. In these interactions, I was viewed as an integral part of the community, rather than a detached academic. I employ the theory of community researcher and the theory of the everyday to frame my experiences and my argument. Recent debates on insider/outsider positionalities conceptualize co-ethnic migrant researchers as situational insiders. Drawing on my lived experiences, however, I argue that my insiderness has been consistently embraced by my co-ethnics. To establish strong rapport with members of their co-ethnics, migrant researchers need to maintain close social contact, informality and casualness, in their everyday interactions to enhance their positionality as trusted insiders during future actual research encounters. This study contributes to theoretical understandings of migration studies and researcher positionalities
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Everyday life · Insider · Lived experience · Situational ethics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
Autoethnography as a research method
The challenges of insider research in educational institutions
Beyond methodological nationalism in insider research with migrants
Issues of Disclosure and Intrusion
Reflexivity in Qualitative Research
On the Inside Looking In
Research methods ‐‐ researching peers and familiar settings
Confronting the Insider-Outsider Polemic in Conducting Research with Diasporic Communities
The researcher/interviewer in intercultural context
Insider or outsider, both or neither
Trust in everyday life
Everyday otherness' - intercultural refugee encounters and everyday multiculturalism in a South Australian rural town
Beyond Indigenous Authenticity
Auto/Ethnography
The Space Between
Now I see it, now I don't
The intimate insider
Working Our Hyphens
Insiders and Outsiders
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |