Assignment - Methods

Ricard Zapata-Barrero & Evren Yalaz (2018). Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies, Cham: Springer Open

The individual assignment is to use one chapter in the book above to reflect on your research method.

You should write a short text (700 - 900 words). The texts should include references.

If you are planning to do interviews, read Olena Fedyuk and Violetta Zentai - The Interview in Migration Studies: A Step towards a Dialogue and Knowledge Co-production?

If you are doing text analysis/discourse analysis, read Teun A. van Dijk - Discourse and Migration.

If you are doing normative theories, read Ricard Zapata-Barrero - Applied Political Theory and Qualitative Research in Migration Studies.

If you are unsure of what method you will use, or if you will use another method, you can chose between the following chapters:

Ewa Morawska - Qualitative Migration Research: Viable Goals, Open-Ended Questions, and Multidimensional Answers

Theodoros Iosifides - Epistemological Issues in Qualitative Migration Research: Self-Reflexivity, Objectivity and Subjectivity.

Karolina Barglowski - Where, What and Whom to Study? Principles, Guidelines and Empirical Examples of Case Selection and Sampling in Migration Research

Research question: What are ethical dilemmas of Nigerian skilled mmigration nurses in UK?