Through reflections on a study of Senegalese in Italy, I discuss the opportunities but also the difficulties of multi-sited ethnography in researching migration. After the presentation of the fieldwork and the various sites it comprised, I show how this research strategy facilitates a rich understanding of migrants’ every-day lives, but I stress also the importance to keep local depth despite moving from one site to another. In the conclusion, I consider the study of co-development projects that migrants conceive abroad to implement at home as a way to ground the study of transnationalism to specific local contexts and their institutions.
Titolo: | Exploring Senegalese Translocal Spaces. Reflections on Multi-sited Research |
Autore/i: | RICCIO, BRUNO |
Autore/i Unibo: | |
Anno: | 2011 |
Titolo del libro: | Multi-Sited Ethnography. Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods |
Pagina iniziale: | 73 |
Pagina finale: | 86 |
Abstract: | Through reflections on a study of Senegalese in Italy, I discuss the opportunities but also the difficulties of multi-sited ethnography in researching migration. After the presentation of the fieldwork and the various sites it comprised, I show how this research strategy facilitates a rich understanding of migrants’ every-day lives, but I stress also the importance to keep local depth despite moving from one site to another. In the conclusion, I consider the study of co-development projects that migrants conceive abroad to implement at home as a way to ground the study of transnationalism to specific local contexts and their institutions. |
Data prodotto definitivo in UGOV: | 24-giu-2013 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.01 Capitolo / saggio in libro |