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- Title
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field.
- Authors
Serra Mingot, Ester; González Zepeda, Carlos Alberto
- Abstract
Based on the current trends in conducting ethnographies, with time and funding limitations and the need to reflect on the researcher's positionality, this article explores the implications of conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a mixed team (in terms of gender, race and nationality) with highly vulnerable populations in a context of crisis. To that end, the article analyses the experience of conducting a team ethnography with African migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. While the study did not start with a self-awareness of what a team ethnography implied, as fieldwork developed the gender, race and nationality of both interviewees and researchers became crucial elements to produce a meaningful multi-layered, multiply-positioned ethnography. This article argues that methodological flexibility and the researchers' relationship with themselves and the respondents are vital elements that require further experimentation in ethnographic research.
- Subjects
MEXICO; AFRICANS; GENDER role; RESEARCH funding; AT-risk people; INTERVIEWING; ETHNOLOGY research; ETHNOLOGY; PARTICIPANT-researcher relationships; RACE; MIGRANT labor; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2024, Vol 24, Issue 3, p591
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/14687941231176939