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Research Methods in Deportation
The Power-Knowledge Approach
9781035313105 Edward Elgar Publishing
This prescient book explores how to confront the methodological and ethical challenges in researching deportation. Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna introduces a ‘power-knowledge’ approach, crucially taking into account the power imbalances that emerge at every stage of the deportation research process.
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This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
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Critical Acclaim
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This prescient book explores how to confront the methodological and ethical challenges in researching deportation. Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna introduces a ‘power-knowledge’ approach, crucially taking into account the power imbalances that emerge at every stage of the deportation research process.
Bringing together a diverse group of eminent deportation scholars, Research Methods in Deportation makes methodological recommendations on the recruitment of research participants, the inclusion of underrepresented demographic groups, longitudinal research into deportations and co-dissemination. The proposed power-knowledge approach counters the existing positivist paradigm that seeks to extract data from research participants, instead prioritising participants’ agency and including them in knowledge co-production. Chapters cover the challenges in researching violent deportation practices and negotiating access for research post-deportation, the methodological challenges of bilingual research in prison, white privilege and the involution of deportation research.
This book will be essential reading for students, academics and researchers in migration studies, refugee studies, sociology, anthropology, and social policy. Offering concrete methodological guidance and advice, it will also be beneficial for practitioners in non-governmental organisations conducting research among potentially deportable and deported people.
Bringing together a diverse group of eminent deportation scholars, Research Methods in Deportation makes methodological recommendations on the recruitment of research participants, the inclusion of underrepresented demographic groups, longitudinal research into deportations and co-dissemination. The proposed power-knowledge approach counters the existing positivist paradigm that seeks to extract data from research participants, instead prioritising participants’ agency and including them in knowledge co-production. Chapters cover the challenges in researching violent deportation practices and negotiating access for research post-deportation, the methodological challenges of bilingual research in prison, white privilege and the involution of deportation research.
This book will be essential reading for students, academics and researchers in migration studies, refugee studies, sociology, anthropology, and social policy. Offering concrete methodological guidance and advice, it will also be beneficial for practitioners in non-governmental organisations conducting research among potentially deportable and deported people.
Critical Acclaim
‘For a policy area where power often seems to trump knowledge, the “power-knowledge” approach to researching deportation set out in this collection could not be more timely or relevant. Its reflections on navigating the violent borderlands of expulsion will not only interest scholars of deportation and migration but anyone researching issues characterized by profound asymmetries of citizenship, power and status.’
– William Walters, Carleton University, Canada
‘In their timely collection on ethics and methodology in deportation studies, the editor and authors have succeeded in setting new standards. In a conceptually sophisticated way, the contributions inquire into issues around power and positionality in the research process around enforced removals and assisted voluntary returns. This sophisticated account is bound to become an essential guide for understanding the importance of the power-knowledge nexus not only in migration studies but also in qualitative methodology.’
– Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Germany
‘Deportation has increasingly become a problematic global response to our worldwide migration crisis. This edited book is a timely and much needed exploration of how to thoroughly, thoughtfully, and ethically research the brutal practice of deportation.’
– Jason De León, University of California, Los Angeles, US
– William Walters, Carleton University, Canada
‘In their timely collection on ethics and methodology in deportation studies, the editor and authors have succeeded in setting new standards. In a conceptually sophisticated way, the contributions inquire into issues around power and positionality in the research process around enforced removals and assisted voluntary returns. This sophisticated account is bound to become an essential guide for understanding the importance of the power-knowledge nexus not only in migration studies but also in qualitative methodology.’
– Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Germany
‘Deportation has increasingly become a problematic global response to our worldwide migration crisis. This edited book is a timely and much needed exploration of how to thoroughly, thoughtfully, and ethically research the brutal practice of deportation.’
– Jason De León, University of California, Los Angeles, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Judith Altrogge, Lior Birger, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Almudena Cortés, Tesfalem (Saimon) Fisaha, Alessandro Forina, Barak Kalir, Witold Klaus, Agnieszka Martynowicz, Nevena Nancheva, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Susanne U. Schultz, Shahar Shoham, Justyna Włodarczyk-Madejska, Dominik Wzorek
Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: a power-knowledge approach 2
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
PART I THE ACCESS
2 Reaching the unreachable: how to recruit those forcefully
returned due to criminal convictions? 29
Witold Klaus, Justyna Włodarczyk-Madejska and Dominik Wzorek
3 EU nationals’ criminal deportations in the UK: embracing
disempowerment as ethics and methodology 48
Nevena Nancheva
4 Negotiating access for research on post-deportation 66
Susanne U. Schultz
PART II DATA COLLECTION
5 Challenges in researching violent deportation practices
and working with street-level bureaucrats 83
Lisa Marie Borrelli
6 Feminist ethnography, deportability and gender-based
violence: accessing situated knowledge of women asylum
seekers in Spain 101
Almudena Cortés and Alessandro Forina
7 The elusive translator – reflections on the methodological
and ethical challenges of bilingual research in prison 118
Agnieszka Martynowicz
8 Managing power-knowledge imbalances in researcher–
informant relationships: methodological and ethical
considerations for longitudinal post-return research 133
Judith Altrogge
PART III DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS
9 The afterlife of research: reflections on co-dissemination
methods in an anti-deportation struggle 151
Shahar Shoham, Lior Birger and Tesfalem (Saimon) Fisaha
AFTERWORD
10 Afterword: white privilege and the involution of
deportation research 165
Barak Kalir
INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: a power-knowledge approach 2
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
PART I THE ACCESS
2 Reaching the unreachable: how to recruit those forcefully
returned due to criminal convictions? 29
Witold Klaus, Justyna Włodarczyk-Madejska and Dominik Wzorek
3 EU nationals’ criminal deportations in the UK: embracing
disempowerment as ethics and methodology 48
Nevena Nancheva
4 Negotiating access for research on post-deportation 66
Susanne U. Schultz
PART II DATA COLLECTION
5 Challenges in researching violent deportation practices
and working with street-level bureaucrats 83
Lisa Marie Borrelli
6 Feminist ethnography, deportability and gender-based
violence: accessing situated knowledge of women asylum
seekers in Spain 101
Almudena Cortés and Alessandro Forina
7 The elusive translator – reflections on the methodological
and ethical challenges of bilingual research in prison 118
Agnieszka Martynowicz
8 Managing power-knowledge imbalances in researcher–
informant relationships: methodological and ethical
considerations for longitudinal post-return research 133
Judith Altrogge
PART III DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS
9 The afterlife of research: reflections on co-dissemination
methods in an anti-deportation struggle 151
Shahar Shoham, Lior Birger and Tesfalem (Saimon) Fisaha
AFTERWORD
10 Afterword: white privilege and the involution of
deportation research 165
Barak Kalir
