TY  - CHAP
AU  - Jacobs, Dirk
AB  - A lot of qualitative researchers have a healthy wariness about straightforward categorisation  and modelling endeavours undertaken by quantitative researchers. Too  often, variables and measurements are too rigid in quantitative analysis to take stock  of all the complexity and context-dependency of human behaviour, attitudes and  identities. In the worst-case scenario for migration studies, this leads to oversimplification,  essentialisation and culturalism. In line with King et al. (1994), I would,  however, in this chapter, like to plead for qualitative researchers to take into account  that, in terms of challenges of validity and reliability, we have a lot to learn from  each other. Acknowledging that qualitative research has its distinctive advantages  (Brady and Collier 2004), I will argue that choices in categorisation, case selection  and research design are of crucial importance, perhaps even more in qualitative  studies than in quantitative studies, even if in both methodological traditions we are  confronted with similar challenges. Being transparent and reflecting on the consequences  of our choices of categorisation, analysis and interpretation is of crucial  importance. It is too easy to think that qualitative research would, by definition, be  better equipped in doing justice to the phenomena we wish to study in the field of  migration, especially if our research focusses on migrants.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-76861-8_8
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1000195
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1051780114
KW  - Categorisation
KW  - Ethnic minorities
KW  - Migration Methodology
KW  - Comparison
KW  - Validity
KW  - Reliability
KW  - Control-group
KW  - Brussels
KW  - Demography
KW  - Dependent and independent variables
KW  - European Union
KW  - Labour economics
KW  - Qualitative research
KW  - Research design
KW  - Social science
KW  - Unemployment
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7b5193ba-694e-4329-96ee-0b4a704249c7/Jacobs2018_Chapter_CategorisingWhatWeStudyAndWhat.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29753
PB  - Springer Nature
PP  - Cham
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9783319768618
TI  - Chapter 8 Categorising What We Study and What We Analyse, and the Exercise of Interpretationnull
ER  - 
