Handbook of research methods in migration - Vargas-Silva, Carlos (Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2012)
Understanding the relationship between methodology and methods / Stephen Castles -- Migration research between positivistic scientism and relativism: a critical realist way out / Theodoros Iosifides -- Migration, methods and innovation: a reconsideration of variation and conceptualization in research on foreign workers / David Bartram -- Transnational - transregional - translocal: transcultural / Dirk Hoerder -- Contemporary migration seen from the perspective of political economy: theoretical and methodological elements / Ra Delgado Wise and Humberto Mquez Covarrubias -- Interviewing techniques for migrant minority groups / Luis Schez-Ayala -- Collecting, analysing and presenting migration histories / Jn Carling -- Empirical methods in the economics of international immigration / Fernando A. Lozano and Michael D. Steinberger -- Using longitudinal data to study migration and remittances / Edward Funkhouser -- Measuring migration in multi-topic household surveys / Calogero Carletto, Alan de Brauw and Raka Banerjee -- Migration and its measurement: towards a more robust map of bilateral flows / Ronald Skeldon -- Experimental approaches in migration studies / David McKenzie and Dean Yang -- Mapping movements: interdisciplinary approaches to migration research / Pablo S. Bose -- Even a transnational social field must have its boundaries: methodological options, potentials and dilemmas for researching transnationalism / Paolo Boccagni -- Mixing methods in research on diaspora policies / Alan Gamlen -- Diasporas on the Web: new networks, new methodologies / Jonathan Crush ... [et al.] -- Approaches to researching environmental change and migration: methodological considerations and field experiences from a global comparative survey project / Koko Warner -- Chasing ghosts: researching illegality in migrant labour markets / Bridget Anderson, Ben Rogaly and Martin Ruhs -- Using qualitative research methods in migration studies: a case study of asylum seekers fleeing gender-based persecution / Connie Oxford -- The importance of accounting for variability in remittance income / Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo -- Ethical challenges in research with vulnerable migrants / Ilse van Liempt and Veronika Bilger -- A guide to managing large-scale migration research projects / Melissa Siegel -- From dissertation to published research: so close, yet so far / Anna O. Law -- What the textbooks don't tell you: moving from a research puzzle to publishing findings / Irene Bloemraad -- Immigrants and'American' franchises: experiences from the field / Jennifer Parker Talwar -- In the factories and on the streets: studying Asian and Latino garment workers in New York City / Margaret M. Chin -- Three mistakes and corrections: on reflective adaptation in qualitative data collection and analysis / Johanna Shih.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Emigration and immigration -- Research -- Methodology