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dc.contributor.editorSandberg, Marie
dc.contributor.editorRossi, Luca
dc.contributor.editorGalis, Vasilis
dc.contributor.editorBak Jørgensen, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-13T18:55:57Z
dc.date.available2021-12-13T18:55:57Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20211213_9783030812263_38
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51964
dc.description.abstractThis Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but also the activities of other actors, from solidarity networks to border control agencies. In doing so, digital technologies create a whole new set of ethical and methodological challenges for migration studies: from data access to data interpretation, privacy protection, and research ethics more generally. Of specific concern are the aspects of digital migration researchers accessing digital platforms used by migrants, who are subject to precarious and insecure life circumstances, lack recognised papers and are in danger of being rejected and deported. Thus, the authors call for new modes of caring for (big) data when researching migrants’ digital practices in the configuration of migration and borders. Besides taking proper care of research participants’ privacy, autonomy, and security, this also spans carefully establishing analytically sustainable environments for the respective data sets. In doing so, the book argues that it is essential to carefully reflect on researchers’ own positioning as being part of the challenge they seek to address.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesApproaches to Social Inequality and Difference
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigrationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoplesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UN Databasesen_US
dc.subject.otherMigration
dc.subject.otherDigital technologies
dc.subject.otherResearch ethics
dc.subject.otherSocial media
dc.subject.otherEthnography
dc.subject.otherPrivacy
dc.subject.otherData Sets
dc.subject.otherBig Data
dc.subject.otherDigital Humanities
dc.subject.otherOpen Access
dc.titleResearch Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
dc.title.alternativeCaring For (Big) Data?
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-81226-3
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedBy6041b9dc-d3a8-4200-85e9-423240580e99
oapen.relation.isbn9783030812263
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages262
oapen.place.publicationBern
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