Research in Times of Emergency
Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Immigrant and Refugee Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4490679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren Fritzsche (0000-0001-5081-721X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 602-619 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00167428.2024.2329598 |
| OpenAlex | W4393032138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 35 |
In this paper, I discuss the methodological challenges and ethical questions that emerge when conducting fieldwork with refugee and immigrant populations in a moment of emergency. I draw on research conducted in Missoula, Montana, between 2021–2022 as Afghans arrived in U.S. communities following the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. I draw on vignettes from fieldwork to foreground the methodological, emotional, and ethical implications of recruiting recently displaced people in moments of emergency into an ongoing research project. I discuss how I navigated these sudden changes in the field, reflecting on my positionality as a researcher and training as a feminist geographer. I contextualize my decision to forgo conducting interviews with a recently displaced population and overburdened service providers within scholarship on feminist methodologies, migration studies, and ethics of care. In doing so, I reflect on the ambivalent nature of research, and what it means to conduct research on, with, and/or about refugees and immigrants
Criminology · Immigration · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Transnational Humanitarianism
Seeking Asylum
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
A critical self-reflexive account of a privileged researcher in a complicated setting
Ethnography and Participant Observation
The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises
Re‐searching access
‘How did you get in?’ Research access and sovereign power during the ‘migration crisis’ in Greece
Stop Stealing Our Stories
A crisis of rights and responsibility
Boundary-making in feminist research
Beyond 'Do No Harm
Refugee research in the shadow of fear
From Ethics to Refusal
Ethical Considerations
Doing Gender
Chaos and Crisis
The humanitarian infrastructure and the question of over‐research
Researching migrants in informal transit camps along the Balkan Route
Why Care Now” in Forced Migration Research
Beyond Crisis Talk
Navigating the “Refugee Ecosystem” in Research at Home
Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆
Suspending Damage
Migration as Crisis
The Field as Here and Now, Not There and Then
"When Fieldwork "Fails
Researching migration and enforcement in obscured places
Purity and Exile
There is no Future in Humanitarianism
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |