Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies : : Caring for (Big) Data?

• Superior document: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference Series
• Author: Sandberg, Marie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rossi, Luca.; Galis, Vasilis.; Bak Jørgensen, Martin.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)

Table of Contents

Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Caring for (Big) Data: An Introduction to Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies -- Introduction-The Scope of This Book -- Ethical and Methodology Challenges in Migration Studies -- Digital Migration Research-Past and Future Methodological Challenges in an Emerging Field -- It Is Big Data-Who Cares? -- Outline of the Book -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part I Digital and Qualitative Data Dynamics -- 2 Migrant Digital Space: Building an Incomplete Map to Navigate Public Online Migration -- Introduction -- Migrants' Digital Traces -- Configuring Migrant Digital Space -- The Practice of Mapping MDS -- Migrants' Everyday Digital Places -- The Evolution of Everyday Life Throughout the Journey -- Everyday Vulnerability -- Non-institutional Is More Trustworthy? -- Temporal Evolution of MDS -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 Contrapuntal Connectedness: Analysing Relations Between Social Media Data and Ethnography in Digital Migration Studies -- Introduction -- One World Anthropology -- Life as Experienced, Traced Life -- On Non-Scalability -- Digital Migration Studies: An Emerging Field -- Stitching, Complementing, Remixing… -- Methodological Design and Ethical Considerations -- On the Ethics of Digital Data for Migration Studies -- Creating a Data Environment Relevant for Contrapuntal Analysis -- Border Enactments -- Example #1: The Border as an Event -- Example #2: The Instability of the Border -- Contrapuntal Moves: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Migration Trail: Exploring the Interplay Between Data visualisation, Cartography and Fiction -- Introduction.

Migration Data Visualisations, Cartographies and Fiction -- Research Objectives of the Analysis -- Denotative Investigation of Migration Trail: An Overview of the Website -- The Main Cartographical View -- The Fictional Chat Box -- Spatial Data Visualisations -- The Ethical, Political and Methodological Concerns of Migration Trail's Fictional Account -- Challenging Traditional Media Portrayals? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Migration Multiple? Big Data, Knowledge Practices and the Governability of Migration -- Introduction -- The Big Data and Migration Apparatus -- Enacting Migration: Knowledge Practices and Migration Multiple -- Enactments of Migration in Big-Data-Based Research Papers -- Multiple Enactments of Migration: Data-Driven Definitions -- Work of Coordination: Enacting Migration as a Singular Object by Reference to Migration Narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Research and Beyond -- 6 Impossible Research? Ethical Challenges in the (Digital) Study of Deportable Populations Within the European Border Regime -- Introduction -- Migration Research Ethics -- From "Do No Harm" to "Do a Lot of Harm"-Towards Politics of Critical Ethics -- Militant Research as an Ethical Research Strategy -- Autonomy of Migration and Research Ethics -- How to Study Deportable Populations-Impossible Research or Political Research -- Bibliography -- 7 The Redundant Researcher: Fieldwork, Solidarity, and Migration -- Introduction -- Arriving on the Islands: From Emotions of Scepticism to Holistic Shame -- Fieldwork or Minefield? Reluctant Trust, Vulnerabilisation, and Political Solidarity -- Lesvos: "Hell on Earth" -- Back to Athens: Towards an Emancipatory Migration Research Paradigm? -- Conclusion? -- Bibliography -- 8 Emotional Introspection: The Politics and Challenges of Contemporary Migration Research.

Introduction -- A Note on Methodology -- Conducting Migration Research at the Present Moment -- Field-Related Exposure, Institutional Drivers, and Emotional Vulnerability -- Insecure Places and Hopeless Situations -- Emotional Rewards -- Conducive Institutional Cultures? -- Contagious Field Sites, Empathy and Emotions -- The Process of Writing -- Digital Availability -- Conclusion and Ways Ahead -- Bibliography -- Part III Comments -- 9 On Data and Care in Migration Contexts -- Data -- Caring for (Big) Data -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 10 Caring as Critical Proximity: A Call for Toolmaking in Digital Migration Studies -- Caring for Digital Traces and Relational Spaces -- Implications for Digital Migration Studies -- Bibliography -- 11 What Should We Do as Intellectual Activists? A Comment on the Ethico-political in Knowledge Production -- What to Do? -- Epistemic Injustice -- Hope -- Intellectual Activism -- Bibliography -- Index.