Diaspora as an Ethnographic Method

James, Malcolm

doi:10.1177/1103308815618138

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“…In depth qualitative research into the relationship between discrimination and transnational practice helps to uncover the shifting racisms, which have been neglected within the field of transnationalism more generally (James 2016). In the UK, the racism of the current conjuncture has led to such a deep-seated insecurity as the political landscape has changed that, in some circumstances, it has been accompanied by a desire to protect oneself through external connections and other sites of belonging.…”

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The hostile environment, Brexit, and ‘reactive‐’ or ‘protective transnationalism’

Redclift

Rajina

2019

Global Networks

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The ‘reactive transnationalism hypothesis’ posits a relationship between discrimination and transnational practice. The concept has generally been studied using quantitative methods, but a qualitative approach augments our understanding of two context‐specific dimensions: the nature of the discrimination involved, and the types of transnational behaviour that might be affected. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Bangladesh‐origin Muslims in London, Luton and Birmingham, in the UK, we demonstrate how anti‐Asian and anti‐Muslim racism have been conflated with intensified anti‐migrant racism in the context of ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies and the EU referendum (Brexit), producing an amplification of racist discourses associated with purging the body politic of its non‐white bodies. The insecurity generated is altering some people's relationships to Bangladesh, incentivizing investment in land and property ‘back home'. While this represents an example of ‘reactive transnationalism', we argue that ‘protective transnationalism’ might be a more appropriate way of describing the processes at work.

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The hostile environment, Brexit, and ‘reactive‐’ or ‘protective transnationalism’

Redclift

Rajina

2019

Global Networks

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“…This is not to suggest a particular diasporic group are internally homogenous and that there is one diasporic epistemology or experience. Indeed, there are trenchant critiques that our conceptualization of diaspora as being different, hybrid or occupying in‐betweenness reinforces ideas of coloniality and practices of racism by ‘othering’ those who are seen to be ‘different’ (James, 2016). Rather, drawing on Stuart Hall and the distinct layering of African, European and American presence that constitute Caribbean identities, challenges us to think about who is the native and who is the migrant and how we come to embody and complicate these ideas of race and difference.…”

Section: Positioning Diaspora and Diasporic Knowledgementioning

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“…Scholarship on diasporic positioning has also critiqued problematic discussions of identity and hybridity in relation to diaspora communities (Mitchell, 1997; Ahmed, 2013). Some scholars have critiqued the conceptualization of diaspora, arguing that much mainstream work on it continues to preserve colonial ways of thinking about the world—that diaspora remains the ‘other’ linked to ‘elsewhere’ (James, 2016). Gowricharn (2022: 2) for example notes that ethnogenesis may offer a useful way to understand how new ethnicities, hybridities, home‐making practices, place attachment and bondings come to be formed in the diaspora.…”

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Diasporic scholarship: racialization, coloniality and de‐territorializing knowledge

Patel,

Sanyal

2024

Singap J Trop Geogr

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In considering how knowledge reproduces the dynamics of coloniality in Geography, scholars have looked beyond the Global North and Global South as cartographical sites, instead seeing them as conceptual frameworks and epistemic positions. Building on this rich work, we draw attention to specific issues obscured within it. Whilst geographical scholarship has moved to recognizing how the Global North and South bleed into each other, it frequently continues to locate scholars themselves within specific territories, labelling them of the Global North or of the Global South, thereby re‐territorializing scholars and their work and reflecting and revealing processes of racialization within the academy.We ask how those who do not fit into neat geographical imaginations of North and South represent ways to understand and know the world? Specifically, how can we centre the idea of diaspora as part of wider geo‐ and body political projects that aim to decentre knowledge production? We bring diaspora back into debates on knowledge production to explore how their understanding of the world, rooted in hybrid and transnational ways, can enrich engagements around postcoloniality and decoloniality. We detail how such voices illuminate how racialization, coloniality and difference continue to mark how we know and teach the world. Our argument makes imperative the case for de‐territorializing scholars and scholarship.

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“…These young women could never occupy one space fully, rather they would find themselves negotiating a single space while also occupying several others. Although classic research tends to frame Pacific youth identities in New Zealand as diasporic (e.g., Aporosa, 2015;Balme & Carstensen, 2001;Chaitin, Awwad, & Andriani, 2009;Esser, 2012;James, 2016), Tupuola turned to the work of Nina Krebs (1999) and the idea of edgewalking. Krebs's own writing breaks the academic rules in providing a number of narratives that draw truths to her concept of edgewalking, as such, the best definition is found in the synopsis or her work:…”

Section: Exploring the Edges Of The Emic And Eticmentioning

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Insider and Outsider Research: Negotiating Self at the Edge of the Emic/Etic Divide

Beals

Kidman

Funaki

2019

Qualitative Inquiry

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Qualitative research is a process of storytelling, but whose story are we telling and from what perspective? We examine Kenneth Pike’s work on emic and etic approaches to qualitative inquiry and explore how, over time, etic has come to refer to settler-colonial research while emic is seen as relating to Othered life-worlds outside academia. Researchers from marginalized communities often struggle to occupy the etic space of the academy and the emic space of their research. Using concepts of edgewalking and edgework, we argue that another space is available at the edge between emic and etic where transformative research can occur.

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Diaspora as an Ethnographic Method

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

The hostile environment, Brexit, and ‘reactive‐’ or ‘protective transnationalism’

The hostile environment, Brexit, and ‘reactive‐’ or ‘protective transnationalism’

Diasporic scholarship: racialization, coloniality and de‐territorializing knowledge

Insider and Outsider Research: Negotiating Self at the Edge of the Emic/Etic Divide

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