Overview
- Demonstrates how to engage interdisciplinary qualitative research methodology
- Offers new dimensions for researchers from different predispositions, languages, cultures, countries, and fields of inquiry
- Presents unique research from inside Australian Detention Centers, the islands of Europe, and the Arizona desert
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (14 chapters)
-
Part I
-
Part III
-
Part IV
Keywords
- Asylum-seeking Refugees
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Research Methodology
- Midrashim
- Refugee Policy
- Immigration Detention Centres
- Emmanuel Levinas' Philosophy
- Levinasian Ethics
- International Human Rights
- Australian Detention Centers
- Australia's Immigration Policy
- Australian Public Discourse on Refugees and Immigration
- Refugee Law in Australia
- Social Research
- Cultural Relativism
- Narrative Research
- Ethics of Levinas
- Aneu Logou
- The Midrash Methodology
- The Field of Midrash
About this book
This book provides a new framework for conducting qualitative research into Asylum Seeking Refugees based on Emmanuel Levinas’ ethic of the face-to-face encounter. The methodology originates in the term Midrash—a narrative form that exposes; investigates; searches. It reconceptualises encounters between Asylum Seeking Refugees and those researching their experiences in a manner that moves beyond the possibility of ‘Othering’ and the removal of ‘voice’ that can characterise research into refugees. This methodology allows a complex and rich multidimensional text, with heterogeneity of voices, experiences, and subjects. As a phenomenological method of research, the internal phenomena of the researcher—feeling, intuition, and personal perception—are legitimate sites of knowledge and understanding, and are not considered separate from the external, objectively observable world. While the researcher is not researching herself, she is also not separate from the research field and data. TheMidrash methodology is an honest and explicit method of research designed to (re)invigorated the passion of academics and researchers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights for Refugees and Other Marginalised Persons
Book Subtitle: A Midrash Methodology
Authors: Devorah Wainer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3571-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3570-0Published: 08 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3573-1Due: 08 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3571-7Published: 07 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 247
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Research Methodology, Research Ethics, Social Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Jewish Theology