Thomas Faist - Methodologies on the Move: The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

Methodologies on the Move

This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called methodological nationalism within empirical studies on migration. They address two main challenges: how to contextualize the empirical research field; and how to deal with national and ethnic categorizations within the empirical studies.

Methodologies on the Move outlines, first of all, a new epistemological basis for migration research, which is pinpointing the relational concept of space. Second, building on the multi-sited ethnography, it provides detailed insights into novel qualitative and quantitative research designs. Third, it presents innovative data collection methods on geographic and virtual mobility, and on cross-border social practices. This volume transcends the early criticisms of methodological nationalism in migration research and suggests both general methodological lines as well as helpful tools for empirical analysis.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Anna Amelina is Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research focuses on social inequality and migration, cutural sociology, transnationalization of gender regimes and methodology of cross-border studies.

Thomas Faist is a Professor of Transnational, Development and Migration Studies in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His main fields of interest are transnationalization migration, social inequalities, social protection and citizenship.

Devrimsel D. Nergiz is Researcher in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her primary research area is the political participation of migrants under the rubric of migration studies.

Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors: Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK, and John Solomos, City University London, UK

The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.

It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries, fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It has moved from being a quarterly to being published monthly and it is now available in both printed and electronic form.

The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Titles in the series include:

The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants

Edited by Jean-Michel Lafleur and Marco Martiniello

Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism

Edited by Steven Vertovec

Migrant Politics and Mobilisation: Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

Edited by Davide Per and John Solomos

New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics

Edited by Paul Amar

Young People, Ethnicity and Social Capital

Edited by Tracey Reynolds

Cosmopolitan Sociability

Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic

Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century

Edited by Charles A. Gallagher and France Winddance Twine

Theorising Integration and Assimilation

Edited by Jens Schneider and Maurice Crul

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion?

Edited by Michelle Ann Miller

Diasporas, Cultures and Identities

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Gender, Race and Religion: Intersections and Challenges

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Latino Identity in Contemporary America

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Nationalism and National Identities

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities: Visible and Invisible Muslims

Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft and Jrgen S. Nielsen

Irregular Migrants: Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives

Edited by Alice Bloch and Milena Chimienti

Fighting Discrimination in Europe: The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach

Edited by Mathias Mschel, Costanza Hermanin and Michele Grigolo

Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Michele Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi

Health Care and Immigration: Understanding the Connections

Edited by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Alejandro Portes

Gender, Migration and the Media

Edited by Myria Georgiou

Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity: The Challenge of Enumeration

Edited by Patrick Simon and Victor Pich

Methodologies on the Move: The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist and Devrimsel D. Nergiz

Methodologies on the Move

The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

Edited by
Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist and Devrimsel D. Nergiz

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