Doing fieldwork with transnational families in an unstructured environment
Issues and challenges for beneficent research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9973323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Admire Chereni (0000-0002-8273-1688, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-209 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020872813508575 |
| OpenAlex | W2132713568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
My intentions in this article are two-fold: 1) to highlight some of the complexities related to beneficent research which social workers might encounter when doing fieldwork with transnational families in an unstructured environment; 2) to argue that efforts to bring about good for vulnerable respondents outside remedial social work settings may have to confront structures that maintain people in circumstances of injustice. Structural change, however, can hardly be achieved within the scope of fieldwork research relationships. Throughout I draw on my fieldwork experiences for illustrations
Environmental ethics · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Remedial education · Scope (computer science · Social injustice · Sociology · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |