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

This 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...

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Hlavní autoři: Sandberg, Marie, Rossi, Luca, Galis, Vasilis, Bak Jørgensen, Martin
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Bern Springer Nature 2022
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Palgrave Macmillan
Vydání:1
Edice:Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
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ISBN:9783030812263, 303081226X, 3030812251, 9783030812256
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  • 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
  • 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