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Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies : Caring for (Big) Data?

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sandberg, Marie.
Other Authors: Rossi, Luca., Galis, Vasilis., Bak Jørgensen, Martin.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
  • Acknowledgments
  • Praise for Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Caring for (Big) Data: An Introduction to Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
  • Introduction-The Scope of This Book
  • Ethical and Methodology Challenges in Migration Studies
  • Digital Migration Research-Past and Future Methodological Challenges in an Emerging Field
  • It Is Big Data-Who Cares?
  • Outline of the Book
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Part I Digital and Qualitative Data Dynamics
  • 2 Migrant Digital Space: Building an Incomplete Map to Navigate Public Online Migration
  • Introduction
  • Migrants' Digital Traces
  • Configuring Migrant Digital Space
  • The Practice of Mapping MDS
  • Migrants' Everyday Digital Places
  • The Evolution of Everyday Life Throughout the Journey
  • Everyday Vulnerability
  • Non-institutional Is More Trustworthy?
  • Temporal Evolution of MDS
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • 3 Contrapuntal Connectedness: Analysing Relations Between Social Media Data and Ethnography in Digital Migration Studies
  • Introduction
  • One World Anthropology
  • Life as Experienced, Traced Life
  • On Non-Scalability
  • Digital Migration Studies: An Emerging Field
  • Stitching, Complementing, Remixing…
  • Methodological Design and Ethical Considerations
  • On the Ethics of Digital Data for Migration Studies
  • Creating a Data Environment Relevant for Contrapuntal Analysis
  • Border Enactments
  • Example #1: The Border as an Event
  • Example #2: The Instability of the Border
  • Contrapuntal Moves: Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Migration Trail: Exploring the Interplay Between Data visualisation, Cartography and Fiction
  • Introduction.
  • Migration Data Visualisations, Cartographies and Fiction
  • Research Objectives of the Analysis
  • Denotative Investigation of Migration Trail: An Overview of the Website
  • The Main Cartographical View
  • The Fictional Chat Box
  • Spatial Data Visualisations
  • The Ethical, Political and Methodological Concerns of Migration Trail's Fictional Account
  • Challenging Traditional Media Portrayals?
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 5 Migration Multiple? Big Data, Knowledge Practices and the Governability of Migration
  • Introduction
  • The Big Data and Migration Apparatus
  • Enacting Migration: Knowledge Practices and Migration Multiple
  • Enactments of Migration in Big-Data-Based Research Papers
  • Multiple Enactments of Migration: Data-Driven Definitions
  • Work of Coordination: Enacting Migration as a Singular Object by Reference to Migration Narratives
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Part II Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Research and Beyond
  • 6 Impossible Research? Ethical Challenges in the (Digital) Study of Deportable Populations Within the European Border Regime
  • Introduction
  • Migration Research Ethics
  • From "Do No Harm" to "Do a Lot of Harm"-Towards Politics of Critical Ethics
  • Militant Research as an Ethical Research Strategy
  • Autonomy of Migration and Research Ethics
  • How to Study Deportable Populations-Impossible Research or Political Research
  • Bibliography
  • 7 The Redundant Researcher: Fieldwork, Solidarity, and Migration
  • Introduction
  • Arriving on the Islands: From Emotions of Scepticism to Holistic Shame
  • Fieldwork or Minefield? Reluctant Trust, Vulnerabilisation, and Political Solidarity
  • Lesvos: "Hell on Earth"
  • Back to Athens: Towards an Emancipatory Migration Research Paradigm?
  • Conclusion?
  • Bibliography
  • 8 Emotional Introspection: The Politics and Challenges of Contemporary Migration Research.
  • Introduction
  • A Note on Methodology
  • Conducting Migration Research at the Present Moment
  • Field-Related Exposure, Institutional Drivers, and Emotional Vulnerability
  • Insecure Places and Hopeless Situations
  • Emotional Rewards
  • Conducive Institutional Cultures?
  • Contagious Field Sites, Empathy and Emotions
  • The Process of Writing
  • Digital Availability
  • Conclusion and Ways Ahead
  • Bibliography
  • Part III Comments
  • 9 On Data and Care in Migration Contexts
  • Data
  • Caring for (Big) Data
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • 10 Caring as Critical Proximity: A Call for Toolmaking in Digital Migration Studies
  • Caring for Digital Traces and Relational Spaces
  • Implications for Digital Migration Studies
  • Bibliography
  • 11 What Should We Do as Intellectual Activists? A Comment on the Ethico-political in Knowledge Production
  • What to Do?
  • Epistemic Injustice
  • Hope
  • Intellectual Activism
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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