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Author(s): Anna Ochoa O’Leary; Colin M. Deeds; Scott Whiteford
ISBN(s): 9780816599165, 0816599165
Edition: 1
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Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0816599165 
ISBN 13: 9780816599165
Author: Anna Ochoa O Leary, Colin M Deeds, Scott Whiteford

“We must secure our borders” has become an increasingly common refrain in the United States since 2001. Most of the “securing” has focused on the US–Mexico border. In the process, immigrants have become stigmatized, if not criminalized. This has had significant implications for social scientists who study the lives and needs of immigrants, as well as the effectiveness of programs and policies designed to help them. In this groundbreaking book, researchers describe their experiences in conducting field research along the southern US border and draw larger conclusions about the challenges of contemporary border research.
Each chapter raises methodological and ethical questions relevant to conducting research in transnational contexts, which can frequently be unpredictable or even volatile. The volume addresses the central question of  how can scholars work with vulnerable migrant populations along the perilous US–Mexico border and maintain ethical and methodological standards, while also providing useful knowledge to stakeholders? Not only may immigrants be afraid to provide information that could be incriminating, but researchers may also be reluctant to allow their findings to become the basis of harsher law enforcement, unjustly penalize the subjects of their research, and inhibit the formulation of humane and effective immigration policy based on scholarly research.
All of these concerns, which are perfectly legitimate from the social scientists’ point of view, can put researchers into conflict with legal authorities. Contributors acknowledge their quandaries and explain how they have dealt with them. They use specific topics—reproductive health issues and sexually transmitted diseases among immigrant women, a study of undocumented business owners, and the administration of the Mexican Household Survey in Phoenix, among others—to outline research methodology that will be useful for generations of border researchers.

Uncharted Terrains New Directions in Border Research Methodology Ethics and Practice 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Big Picture

  1. Vulnerable Immigrant “Subjects”: Definitions, Dilemmas, Disparate Power, and Desired Benefits

  2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Border Research Collaboration

  3. Ethical Dilemmas in Immigration Policy Research

Part II: The Border as an Unstable Place

  1. On Shifting Ground: Ethical and Methodological Conundrums of Ethnographic Border Research under Changing Security Paradigms

  2. Methodological Challenges and Ethical Concerns of Researching Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Undocumented Migrants

  3. Entre Los Mafiosos y La Chota: Ethnography, Drug Trafficking, and Policing in the South Texas–Mexico Borderlands

  4. Shaping Public Opinion on Migration in Mexico: The Challenges of Gathering and Validating Information for National News Media

Part III: Fieldwork among Entrapped Communities

  1. Researching Women’s Vulnerability and Agency Regarding STDs during Migration through Altar, Sonora: Methodological and Ethical Reflections

  2. Reflections on Methodological Challenges in Studying Immigrant Women and Reproductive Health in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region

  3. Women, Migrants, Undocumented Business Owners: Methodological Strategies in Fieldwork with Vulnerable Populations

  4. Research on Oppressed Communities

Part IV: A Fence on Its Side Is a Bridge

  1. Methodological and Ethical Implications in Designing and Applying the Mexican Household Survey in Phoenix, Arizona (EHMPA 2007)

  2. Lessons for Border Research: The Border Contraceptive Access Study

  3. Social Research and Reflective Practice in Bi-national Contexts: Learning from Cross-Cultural Collaboration

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