“It is refreshing
how this book avoids the pretence of many approaches to methodology
and instead opens up the difficult questions around research construction
and the role of the researcher in work with vulnerable migrants.
Apart from opening up the space for honest debate, it also refuses
to recommend one ethic of migration research. Full of detailed deconstruction
of the emotional and political aspects of this type of research,
the book skillfully invites critical thinking and rasies awareness
of why it is often so hard to stand for integrity as researchers
in a context of injustice. A very welcome high-level contribution
to a much-need debate.” Dr. Christien van den Anker, Reader
at University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol
“Migration studies increasingly deal with “vulnerable
populations”, defined as those who lack the ability to make
personal life choices, personal decisions, or maintain independence
and self-determination. Inmates in prisons, subjects of human or
sexual trafficking, and migrants displaced by war are considered
vulnerable populations. Dealing with migration that is so akin to
human suffering raises methodological and ethical considerations
for field population researchers. This book identifies and grapples
with these issues, raising concerns worthy of exploration and debate.”
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