The Practice of Research on Migration and Mobilities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Dialogues and Methodological Debates

   • Liliana Rivera-Sánchez, Fernando Lozano-Ascencio

   Pages 1-18

3. Residential Settlement and Mobility in the San Quintin Valley: Methodological Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Study

   • Marie Laure Coubès, Laura Velasco, Christian Zlolniski

   Pages 19-42

4. A Comparative Approach to Global Domestic Service in Two Cities: Methodological Notes

   • Marina Ariza

   Pages 43-76

5. Forced Migration of Colombians: A Relational Perspective

   • Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Marta I. Villa-Martínez

   Pages 77-101

6. Transnational Migration and the Reformulation of Analytical Categories: Unpacking Latin American Refugee Dynamics in Toronto

   • Luin Goldring, Patricia Landolt

   Pages 103-127

7. Between Contexts of Departure and Modalities of Social Organization of Migration: A Radiography of the Research Process

   • Liliana Rivera-Sánchez, Fernando Lozano-Ascencio

   Pages 129-159

8. Investigating at the ‘Source’: Rethinking the Transnational Social Space from the Contexts of Departure

   • Alicia Torres, Gioconda Herrera

   Pages 161-179

9. Back Matter

   Pages 181-191

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The migration process is interpreted in a different way when researchers live in so-called societies of origin, than when it is interpreted from societies of destination—even when research work is multi-situated. The localization of researchers in this field involves numerous factors that influence the modalities for conducting research. Research agendas are clearly mediated by these localizations and this book on the contemporary social sciences points out those mediations, breaking with the dichotomous readings that are implicit in this migration process (origin-destination, north-south, and cause-effect, to mention just a few). In the individual chapters, priority is given to presenting the modalities through which research is conducted in multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary teams on the American Continent. In summary, the focus of this book is on the narrative of methodological experience of the Practice of Research on Migration and Mobilities.

• Latin American Immigrants
• Migration Studies
• Migration Studies
• Practice of Research
• Sociology of Migration and Mobilities

• The Regional Centre of Multi disciplinary Research-CRIM, The National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico

  Liliana Rivera-Sánchez, Fernando Lozano-Ascencio

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