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Title Research methodologies and ethical challenges in digital migration studies : caring for (big) data? / Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Series Approaches to social inequality and difference
Approaches to social inequality and difference.
Contents Caring For (Big) Data: An Introduction To Research Methodologies And Ethical Challenges In Digital Migration Studies / Marie Sandberg and Luca Rossi -- Migrant Digital Space: Building An Incomplete Map To Navigate Public Online Migration / Vasiliki Makrygianni [and 3 others] -- Contrapuntal Connectedness: Analysing Relations Between Social Media Data And Ethnography In Digital Migration Studies / Marie Sandberg, Nina Grøndlykke Mollerup, and Luca Rossi -- Migration Trail: Exploring The Interplay Between Data-Visualisation, Cartography, And Fiction / Giacomo Toffano and Kevin Smets -- Migration Multiple? Big Data, Knowledge Practices And The Governability Of Migration / Laura Stielike -- The Redundant Researcher: Fieldwork, Solidarity And Migration / Leandros Fischer and Martin Bak Jørgensen -- Impossible Research? Ethical Challenges In The (Digital) Study Of Deportable Populations Within The European Border Regime / Vasilis Galis -- Emotional Introspection: The Politics And Challenges Of Contemporary Migration Research / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen -- On Data And Care In Migration Contexts / Koen Leurs -- Caring As Critical Proximity: A Call For Toolmaking In Digital Migration Studies / Anders Munk -- What Should We Do As Intellectual Activists? A Comment On The Ethico-Political In Migration Research / Anna Lundberg
Summary This OA 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Database management -- Moral and ethical aspects
Electronic data processing.
Emigration and immigration -- Data processing
Big data.
Big data
Electronic data processing
Form Electronic book
Author Sandberg, Marie, editor
Rossi, Luca, 1979- editor.
Galis, Vasilis, editor
Jørgensen, Martin Bak, 1973- editor.
ISBN 9783030812263
303081226X