Nur Zeitzeugen und Kennern der frühen Nachkriegsgeschichte wird die „Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit“ (KgU) heute noch etwas sagen. Das war in der Hochzeit des Kalten Krieges in beiden deutschen Staaten anders. Namentlich im noch nicht durch die Mauer geteilten Berlin kannte wohl fast jeder die berühmt-berüchtigte Organisation.
Quelle: https://www.blaetter.de/archiv/jahrgaenge/2015/juni/militanter-antikommunismus
1.4. – IStGH. Der Beitritt Palästinas zum Römischen Statut des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs wird wirksam. Präsident Abbas ermächtigt das Gericht in Den Haag, sämtliche seit Juni 2014 (Beginn des Gazakrieges) begangenen mutmaßlichen Verbrechen auf palästinensischem Gebiet zu untersuchen (vgl.
Quelle: https://www.blaetter.de/archiv/jahrgaenge/2015/juni/chronik-des-monats-april-2015
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546545.2015.1037112?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ngs.2015.9.issue-2/ngs-2015-0008/ngs-2015-0008.xml
Drawing upon my long experience of qualitative migration research, this article uses the concept of "multiple positionalities", to challenge the fixity of positionality underpinning constructions of "insiders" versus "outsiders" in the research process. While "insider" status is usually associated with shared ethnicity/ nationality, migration studies have been urged to go beyond the ethnic lens (AMELINA & FAIST, 2012; GLICK SCHILLER & CAGLAR, 2009). I argue that migrants cannot be neatly contained within fixed "insider" ethnic categories; instead it is more illuminating to consider how identities are re-constructed through migration. In this contribution I use moments from a range of research studies with migrant women in London. In comparing and contrasting my encounters with these migrants, who come from Ireland and Poland, I critically reflect upon how empathy and rapport were negotiated through dynamic rhythms of positionalities—gender, age, professional and parental status and migratory experience, as well as nationality. In so doing, I consider the challenges but also the opportunities of researching within as well as across migrant populations and how this may inform an attempt to go beyond the ethnic lens.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502175
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2333
This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision to the insider/outsider dichotomy viewing it as inadequately nuanced in relation to the multiple intersectionalities performed through the research encounter. It is based on data collected from biographical-narrative interviews with Polish young people living in Edinburgh, Scotland. The article explores the interview encounter between an English researcher and Polish young people about the experience of EU mobility and argues that as migration narratives unfold the distinctions between the "researcher" and the "researched" blur. In particular, I focus on the intersections of gender, class and nationality to show how different positionalities are negotiated and confronted through reflexivity. The interview is a creative process involving co-construction of narratives through dialogue, embodied performances and non-cognitive associations that draw out the multiple intersectionalities of both parties. Through this process the binary of insider/outsider is called into question and this article examines the usefulness of this dichotomy as a framework for understanding the research relationship.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150249
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2331
This article reflects on fieldwork experiences with coethnic migrants in London to challenge understandings of insiderness centred in shared ethnicity, as well as the usefulness of the insider-outsider divide in migration research more generally. Drawing on examples from a study of migrants' social relations, it shows how gender, migrant status, and occupational position sometimes shape research encounters in more important ways than shared ethnicity. Furthermore, whilst shared ethnicity is undoubtedly useful in certain respects, participants' ethnicised discourses and practices may also generate feelings of distance in the coethnic researcher. Whilst supporting the "ethnic bias" critique to migration studies (GLICK SCHILLER, ÇAĞLAR & GULDBRANDSEN, 2006), the analysis thus highlights how both ethnic and non-ethnic factors alternate or interact to create perceptions of insiderness or outsiderness in specific research contexts
URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502150
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2371
This article rejects the insider/outsider dichotomy as a framework for understanding researcher-researched relationship. It complicates the over-simplified, bounded and binary construct by underlining how insiderness-outsiderness is dynamic and multiple, highly contextualised in the specific space-time of interactions between the researcher and her "research subject". In particular, the article underlines the power of space, place and time in researchers' attempt to establish and manage relationship with the people they study. It puts forth the notion of "spatial-temporal reach" to make sense of the complex, dynamic, deeply situated and often unplannable relationalities between researchers and their research participants. Episodes from the author's journey as a "migrant researcher" illustrate how sensitivity to (socio)spatialities (as in insiderness-outsiderness) and temporalities (such as age, generation, life cycle, time and frequency of research contact) help us, as researchers, reflect on our positionalities, experiences and emotions in knowledge co-production with the people whom we study, that in turn, shape our understanding of our own identities and heritage.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502130
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2332
The article discusses my experiences of gradual immersion into the community of Polish migrants to Australia, which I joined while researching life writing of Polish post-war women migrants to Australia. I focus on how my assumptions concerning commonality of culture and language transformed during the preliminary stages of my research. I initially assumed that speaking the same language as the writers whose works I study, and their ethnic community, would position me as a person sharing the same cultural knowledge, and allow me immediate access to research participants. Yet, the language I considered to be the major marker of ethnic identity exhibited multiplicity instead of unity of experiences, positions and conceptual worlds. Instead, gender, which I had considered a fluid and unstable category highly context-dependent especially in the migration framework, proved to be an important element of interaction and communication between myself and my research participants. I have learnt that it is critical for research on diaspora, including diaspora's literary cultures, to account for other identity markers that include me as a researcher into some Polish community groups while excluding from others. I base my contribution on various kinds of materials, including field notes, fieldwork diaries and interviews with Polish writers as well as secondary literature on Poles and Australians of Polish extraction in Australia.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502165
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2358
Researchers' performances in the field are gendered, classed, and ethnicized. We are watched and judged by our respondents based on how we look, what we say, and how we say it. Our appearance in the field may increase or decrease our chances of creating rapport, it may encourage respondents to talk to us or discourage them entirely from taking part in our research. Whereas we have no absolute control over all the factors determining how we present ourselves in the field, we do have some power over our dress. Although the act of getting dressed for fieldwork may appear inconspicuous and mundane, I argue in this article that its implications are most relevant for our thinking about how we design and perform fieldwork. Particularly the assumptions regarding our respondents' and our own class, gender, and ethnicity that we make before entering the field are worthy of careful consideration as they display our thought processes and, as such, are part of academic analysis.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502146
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2334
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