1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779711903321

Autore

Jackson Michael <1940->

Titolo

The wherewithal of life [[electronic resource] ] : ethics, migration, and the question of well-being / / Michael Jackson in conversation with Emmanuel Mulamila, Roberto M. Franco, and Ibrahim Ouédraogo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013

ISBN

0-520-27670-1

0-520-95681-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MulamilaEmmanuel

FrancoRoberto M

OuédraogoIbrahim

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology - Philosophy

Ethics - Anthropological aspects

Well-being

Immigrants

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preamble -- Emmanuel -- Roberto -- Ibrahim -- Postscript -- Appendix: Existential Mobility -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south. Michael Jackson offers the first biographically based phenomenological account of migration and mobility, providing new insights into the various motives, tactics, dilemmas, dreams, and disappointments that characterize contemporary migration. It is argued that the quandaries of African or Mexican migrants are not unique to people moving between 'traditional' and 'modern' worlds. While more intensely felt by the



young, seeking to find a way out of a world of limited opportunity and circumscribed values, the experiences of transition are familiar to us all, whatever our age, gender, ethnicity or social status - namely, the impossibility of calculating what one may lose in leaving a settled life or home place; what one may gain by risking oneself in an alien environment; the difficulty of striking a balance between personal fulfillment and the moral claims of kinship; and the struggle to know the difference between 'concrete' and 'abstract' utopias (the first reasonable and worth pursuing; the second hopelessly unattainable).

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794558303321

Autore

Rubin Ashley T.

Titolo

Rocking qualitative social science : an irreverent guide to rigorous research / / Ashley T. Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-2824-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Disciplina

300.721

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Qualitative research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction to Dirtbagging -- 2 Topo: What Exactly Are Qualitative Methods? -- 3 Picking Your Proj: Identifying Your Research Question -- 4 On Belay: Connecting Your Work to an Anchor -- 5 Mapping out the Route: How and When Research Design Matters -- 6 Starting on the Right Foot: Making and Justifying Your Case Selection -- 7 Flaking out the Rope: How to Check Your Sample -- 8 Bivvy Time: The Fieldwork Model of Data Collection -- 9 The Crux: Content Analysis, Analytic Memos, and Other Tricks -- 10 Placing Pro: Making Causal Claims with Qualitative Data -- 11 Living on the Sharp End: Dealing with Skeptics of Qualitative Research -- 12 The Sweeper -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

The inclusive, flexible alternative to rigid traditional advice.