Context-Based Qualitative Research and Multi-sited Migration Studies in Europe

King, Russell

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“…We do not set the island as the main unit of analysis. The island, consequently, is not the explanatory pattern for all the practices and narratives researched, but is important for contextualisation (King, 2018). Economist Percy Selwyn argued that islands are not useful categories in the context of social analysis, but "that the attempt to use them in this way is an illegitimate extension of biological to social categories of thinking" (1980, p.945).…”

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1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

Nimführ¹,

Otto²

2020

ISJ

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Even though the relational turn within Island Studies has long revoked the equation of islands with insularity, disconnectedness and backwardness, these ascriptions are still often deterministically attributed to islands, mainly by non-island scholars. Thereby these designations are not only reproduced, but connections, dynamics, different forms of embeddedness and entanglements remain overlooked. This paper has two main goals: (1) Adding to the relational turn in Island Studies by not only arguing for more inductive approaches to seriously engage with these situated and changing manifestations and meaningmakings of islands, and (2) by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malta, we introduce the concept of 'islandscape' (Broodbank 2000) to the Island Studies literature. Through the lens of islandscape, islands can be researched as nodal points of the local, national and global without reproducing 'islandism' while still acknowledging the importance of the island. The combination of-scape and assemblage-thinking which is already present within Island Studies makes it possible to address the tension between global and local and, rather, to look at which concrete, situated assemblages emerge within islandscape. In this sense, we propose to think of the island as islandscape from the very beginning of research, then to show how this islandscape is actually constituted and then to describe partial moments of stabilisation in terms of assemblages.

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1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

Nimführ¹,

Otto²

2020

ISJ

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“…Marcus proclaimed that it was necessary to go beyond a single-sited research design and adopt a multisited approach "to examine the circulation of meanings, objects, and identities in diffuse time-space" (p. 96). Following the "spatial turn" in the social sciences, multisited designs have become increasingly adopted by social researchers (Falzon, 2009), especially those working in migration and mobility studies (King, 2018). Generally, the participants were friendly and cooperative, a reaction arguably linked to the first author's positionality as a firstgeneration male resident of East London.…”

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When migrants become hosts and nonmigrants become mobile: Bangladeshis visiting their friends and relatives in London

Miah

King

2020

Population Space and Place

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Most studies of migrants visiting their friends and relatives (VFR) are on homeland visits. In this article, we reverse the transnational optic and study nonmigrants from the country of origin visiting their migrated friends and relatives abroad. We draw on participant observation and 57 interviews with migrant hosts and nonmigrant visitors carried out in London and in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. Visits from the homeland to the diaspora are found to be deeply meaningful for the maintenance of transnational familyhood, especially at critical moments such as weddings, childbirth, and end of life. They are performative acts of belonging with unwritten rules of mutual obligations and choreographed itineraries to the houses of relatives and friends and to tourist sites. They also represent inequalities in economic status and social mobility between the migrants and their left‐behind relatives and friends in Bangladesh. Most visits are enjoyable for all concerned, but subtle tensions can arise, for instance, in the hosts' difficulty in managing their ongoing working lives with duties of hospitality and acting as guides and in visitors' intense schedule of duty visits to many relatives and lack of agency in stepping out of the Bangladeshi community in London. Furthermore, in an increasingly hostile environment for getting visas to visit the United Kingdom, an unequal and inhumane situation arises of blocked mobility.

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“…Our starting-point is the landmark paper by George Marcus (1995) on 'multi-sited ethnography' in which he encouraged field researchers to 'follow the people ' (1995, 106). Building on King (2018), we take forward Marcus' entreaty to consider the extent to which multi-sited transnationalism can indeed be studied through the technique of multi-sited ethnography, whilst incorporating some of the critiques of Marcus' formulation originating from more 'place-bound' anthropologists.…”

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Onward Migration and Transnationalism: What Are the Interconnections?

Ahrens

King²

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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This introductory chapter sets the scene for the book. It defines onward migration as a migration trajectory that involves extended stays in two or more destination countries and distinguishes it from competing and overlapping terms like stepwise and transit migration. Onward migration is a growing phenomenon within overall global migration dynamics, although statistics to document the scale and trends of this type of migration are scarce. The main aim of the chapter is to examine how onward migration and transnationalism are connected. This is achieved both by reference to a range of existing literature and by citing evidence from the succeeding chapters in the volume. We demonstrate both how transnationalism can shape onward migration and, the reverse, how different onward migration trajectories may result in different forms of transnationalism. In this latter context, we identify inter-generational, split, widening and re-routed transnationalism, again drawing on examples both from the book and from the wider literature. The final section of the chapter consists of a methodological discussion on the practicalities of researching onward migration and multi-sited transnationalism, in which the technique of multi-sited ethnography is discussed, critiqued and modified.

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Context-Based Qualitative Research and Multi-sited Migration Studies in Europe

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

When migrants become hosts and nonmigrants become mobile: Bangladeshis visiting their friends and relatives in London

Onward Migration and Transnationalism: What Are the Interconnections?

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