Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science
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In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia L pez Ju rez and Mirian A. Mijangos Garc a--two local immigrant workers from Latin America--joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos Garc a and L pez Ju rez transformed the project's activist and academic dimensions. In so doing, they offer a guide for those wishing to expand the potential of ethnography to serve as a means for social transformation and decolonization.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1478003952
ISBN13:9781478003953
Release Date:May 2019
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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