Handbook of Research Methods in Migration

Edited by Carlos Vargas-Silva, Professor of Migration Studies, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK

‘. . . the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration is a timely and important contribution to the still-limited literature on methods in migration research. . . it is likely to have great impact among students and lecturers within migration studies, both at undergraduate and at postgraduate levels.’

• Contents: IntroductionCarlos Vargas-Silva PART I: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF SCIENTIFIC LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND METHODS IN MIGRATION STUDIES 1. Understanding the Relationship between Methodology and MethodsStephen Castles2. Migration Research between Positivistic Scientism and Relativism: A Critical Realist Way OutTheodoros Iosifides3. Migration, Methods and Innovation: A Reconsideration of Variation and Conceptualization in Research on Foreign WorkersDavid Bartram4. Transnational – Transregional – Translocal: TransculturalDirk Hoerder5. Contemporary Migration Seen from the Perspective of Political Economy: Theoretical and Methodological Elements Raúl Delgado Wise and Humberto Márquez Covarrubias PART II: INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES 6. Interviewing Techniques for Migrant Minority GroupsLuis Sánchez-Ayala7. Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Migration Histories Jørgen Carling8. Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration Fernando A. Lozano and Michael D. Steinberger9. Using Longitudinal Data to Study Migration and Remittances Edward Funkhouser10. Measuring Migration in Multi-topic Household Surveys Calogero Carletto, Alan de Brauw and Raka Banerjee11. Migration and its Measurement: Towards a More Robust Map of Bilateral Flows Ronald Skeldon12. Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies David McKenzie and Dean Yang PART III: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AND MIXED METHODS 13. Mapping Movements: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration ResearchPablo S. Bose14. Even a Transnational Social Field Must Have its Boundaries: Methodological Options, Potentials and Dilemmas for Researching TransnationalismPaolo Boccagni15. Mixing Methods in Research on Diaspora PoliciesAlan Gamlen PART IV: EXPLORING SPECIFIC MIGRATION TOPICS 16. Diasporas on the Web: New Networks, New MethodologiesJonathan Crush, Cassandra Eberhardt, Mary Caesar, Abel Chikanda, Wade Pendleton and Ashley Hill17. Approaches to Researching Environmental Change and Migration: Methodological Considerations and Field Experiences from a Global Comparative Survey Project Koko Warner18. Chasing Ghosts: Researching Illegality in Migrant Labour Markets Bridget Anderson, Ben Rogaly and Martin Ruhs19. Using Qualitative Research Methods in Migration Studies: A Case Study of Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gender-based Persecution Connie Oxford20. The Importance of Accounting for Variability in Remittance IncomeCatalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo PART V: PRACTICAL ISSUES IN MIGRATION RESEARCH 21. Ethical Challenges in Research with Vulnerable Migrants Ilse van Liempt and Veronika Bilger22. A Guide to Managing Large-scale Migration Research Projects Melissa Siegel PART VI: MOVING FROM RESEARCH TO PUBLISHED WORK 23. From Dissertation to Published Research: So Close, Yet So FarAnna O. Law24. What the Textbooks Don’t Tell You: Moving from a Research Puzzle to Publishing Findings Irene Bloemraad PART VII: EXPERIENCES FROM THE FIELD 25. Immigrants and ‘American’ Franchises: Experiences from the FieldJennifer Parker Talwar26. In the Factories and on the Streets: Studying Asian and Latino Garment Workers in New York City Margaret M. Chin27. Three Mistakes and Corrections: On Reflective Adaptation in Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis Johanna ShihIndex