Politicized and depoliticized ethnicities, power relations and temporality
Insights to Outsider Research From Comparative and Transnational Fieldwork
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2147668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Baser (0000-0002-8583-5909, Coventry University, corresponding author), Mari Toivanen (0000-0001-7308-571X, University of Turku) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2067-2084 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2017.1348530 |
| OpenAlex | W2735263710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 11 |
The insider and outsider positions in migration studies have conventionally been approached in terms of ethnic or national belonging. Recently scholars have problematized the essentialist approaches to these roles by arguing for the inclusion of multiple intersecting social locations that are at play in the constitution of researcher positionality. Less attention has been paid, however, on how different ethnicities are constructed and how they can become politicized and depoliticized at particular moments during the research process. This article discusses the fieldwork experiences of two "apparent outsiders" to the studied diaspora community. Drawing from our experiences in multi-sited and comparative fieldwork on the Kurdish diaspora, we argue that rather than taking insider and outsider positions as a starting-point to understand researcher positionality, scholars need to look at particular moments of insiderness and outsiderness to grasp how the researcher's assumed ethnicity becomes politicized and depoliticized during ethnographic fieldwork
Constitution · Diaspora · Epistemology · Essentialism · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Insider · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Temporality · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Navigating power hierarchies in the “field”
Gendering internal colonialism
Researching sensitive topics when the participants are stigmatized, the culture is value-laden and the researcher is an insider-outsider
Second Generation and Migrant Capital in the Transnational Space
Lack of self-confidence of the authoritarian regimes and academic freedom
Holding up the researcher’s mirror to decolonize knowledge generation
Torn apart! Transnational feminist researchers’ geopolitical positionality in (pre-) Covid-19 times
Unpacking the Displacement‐Migration Nexus
The Freedom Paradox
Differentiation, Affected Temporalities and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion of the Border Regime
Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion
A vicious circle of silent exclusion
Transnational citizenship
Threats and ambivalence in land formalization
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats
Deradicalization of Foreign Fighters and the Agency of Diaspora
Chronic Pain of Race and Citizenship
Insider Research on Migration and Mobility
Beyond the insider–outsider divide in migration research
Beyond methodological nationalism in insider research with migrants
Confronting the Insider-Outsider Polemic in Conducting Research with Diasporic Communities
Elite Interviewing in a Divided Society
Beyond Indigenous Authenticity
The Birth of the Anthropological Self and Its Career
"Becoming a "Trusted Outsider
Friend or Foe
Transnational dynamics in researching migrants
De-naturalizing the national in research methodologies
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |