EAN: 9783030812287

APPROACHES TO SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE ...

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 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.

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