From the Multi-Sited to the In-Between: Ethnography as a Way of Delving into Migrants' Transnational Relationships

Autor/in	Boccagni, Paolo
Titel	From the Multi-Sited to the In-Between: Ethnography as a Way of Delving into Migrants' Transnational Relationships
Quelle	In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19 (2016) 1, S.1-16 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-5579
DOI	10.1080/13645579.2014.932107
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Immigrants; Family Relationship; Research Methodology; Mobility; Foreign Countries; Biographies; Interpersonal Relationship; Emotional Response; Researchers; Ecuador; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Mobilität; Mobilitätsförderung; Ausland; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Emotionales Verhalten; Researcher; Forscher; Italien
Abstract	Multi-sited ethnography has been extensively applied to migrants' transnational family life and to the underlying care practices. Its methodological underpinnings and dilemmas, though, are relatively under-reflected. How can the relational and affective spaces between migrants and left-behind kin be ethnographically appreciated? Against this question, I revisit my fieldwork on a migration flow between Ecuador and Italy. This is an instance of the development of transnational social relationships, based on the circulation of material, cognitive and emotional resources, whereby people living 'here' and 'there' negotiate mutual affections, concerns and expectations. The challenge for ethnographers, under similar circumstances, lies less in staying in more sites than in sensing and understanding the relationships between them and the social practices on which this connectedness relies. The attendant methodological implications are discussed, ultimately pointing to the significance of relationality and in-betweenness for ethnographies of migration, transnationalism and mobilities. (As Provided).
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