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Overview“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 stigmatised, if not criminalised. 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 penalise 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anna Ochoa O'Leary , Colin M. Deeds , Scott WhitefordPublisher: University of Arizona Press Imprint: University of Arizona Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.456kg ISBN: 9780816530557ISBN 10: 0816530556 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 30 November 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThis volume raises a series of pressing questions of how to identify research topics, to carry out research, and to do so with full respect for human dignity, right, and well-being. This is a relevant, interesting, and important central theme for border scholars. --Josiah Heyman, author of Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, 1886-1986 """Researchers seldom discuss the humane challenges and internal emotional conflicts that they face when working with vulnerable and marginalized populations.""--Irasema Coronado, author of Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border ""This volume raises a series of pressing questions of how to identify research topics, to carry out research, and to do so with full respect for human dignity, right, and well-being. This is a relevant, interesting, and important central theme for border scholars.""--Josiah Heyman, author of Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, 1886-1986" Researchers seldom discuss the humane challenges and internal emotional conflicts that they face when working with vulnerable and marginalized populations. Irasema Coronado, author of Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S. Mexico Border Researchers seldom discuss the humane challenges and internal emotional conflicts that they face when working with vulnerable and marginalized populations. Irasema Coronado, author of <i>Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S. Mexico Border </i> -Researchers seldom discuss the humane challenges and internal emotional conflicts that they face when working with vulnerable and marginalized populations.---Irasema Coronado, author of Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border Author InformationAnna Ochoa O’Leary is an assistant professor of Mexican American studies at the University of Arizona, USA where she co-directs the Binational Migration Institute. She is the editor of Chicano Studies: The Discipline and the Journey and of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of Their Experience. Colin M. Deeds is the assistant director of the Center for Latin American studies at the University of Arizona, USA. He is also the director of graduate studies at the Center. Scott Whiteford is a professor of Latin American studies at the University of Arizona, USA. He is co-editor of Globalization, Water, & Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity, Managing a Sacred Gift: Changing Water Management Strategies in Mexico, and Seguridad, Agua y Desarrollo: El Futuro de la Frontera México-Estados Unidos. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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