Agricultural Workers
Field Research with an Imagined Community that is Mobile and Hard-to-Reach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6017124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith V Bletzer (0000-0002-1782-6074, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12-23 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Open Anthropology Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1874-9127 |
| Publisher | Bentham Science Publishers Ltd (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2174/1874912701104010012 |
| OpenAlex | W2150668168 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Fieldwork strategies are showing increasing concern about contributing something of value to the local community, where one has conducted research.This concern for payback has centered on countermanding the obvious, visible benefits to individual researchers, or a research team, than whatever contributions have gone to the community, which are likely to be much less visible.Alternatives to direct community contributions include sharing expertise with those that provide basic services and advocates who work on behalf of the population.Research with farm workers requires shifts in field techniques that take into account continuing geographic mobility, irregular employment, and a precarious economic situation experienced by the study population.This article describes the author's experience in conducting long-term ethnography among farm workers across multiple sites along the eastern United States.Strategies of fieldwork among this mobile and hard-to-reach population are compared against standards of fieldwork that have been articulated in four classic monographs from the social sciences.An overview of findings from research among agricultural workers is offered as evidence of the appropriateness of reliance on emerging field strategies that consider the safety and well-being of the population, simultaneous with selecting what eventually become valid and reliable techniques of data collection
Agriculture · Economic growth · Economics · Field (mathematics · Geographic mobility · Geography · Political science · Population · Public relations · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Agriculture and Farm Safety · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Computer Science · Demography · Engineering · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
The professional stranger
The Ethnographic Self
Stages of progression in drug involvement from adolescence to adulthood
Tally's Corner
Street Corner Society
The Effects of Problem Drinking and Sexual Risk Among Mexican Migrant Workers on Their Community of Origin
Modulation of Drug Use in Southern Farming Communities
The Social Context of Alcohol Initiation Among African American and White Youth
I Know It's Dangerous
With These Hands
Staying Sober in Mexico City
Onset of Substance use among Transnational and Domestic Agricultural Workers
Variation in Drug and Alcohol Use among Agricultural Laborers
The Influence of Lifestyles on the Patterns and Practices of Alcohol Use among South Texas Mexican Americans
With These Hands
Migrant Agricultural Workers in America's Northeast
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Open towns and manipulated indebtedness among agricultural workers in the New South
Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |