Overcoming Challenges of International Migration Research: A Case Study Approach in Southern Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Julie Boyles
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Migration Research

An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration—or potential emigration—offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S.-based researcher.  International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.

scholarly journals PROSES LEGITIMISASI ‘HMT’ DI PENGADILAN TIPIKOR AMARTA

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teddy Asmara
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Cognition ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Guilty Verdict ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Conceptual Relationship

This study describes the process of enculturation anti-corruption where its dynamic has change to a legitimation of should punish the defendant. With ethnographic case study approach, the study focused on how judges interpret the criminal acts of corruption and how to respond to legitimate to punish the defendant in the context of decision-making. The results showed that the judges react in two ways of reasonings, first, they interpret it as an intervention or intimidation that threatens self-identity. Second, open records his experience of corruption and political relations, or not as transparent as other cases. Technically, the conceptual relationship between the two reasoning is a psycho-cultural cognition as a perfect reflection on their work, structured from the examination to the decision. In other word, the defendant not guilty verdict symbolizes maintaining self-identy and a rejection of legitimation of the defendant should be penalised.                                                                             Key words:    legitimation of defendant should be penalised, meaning of corruption cases, psycho-cultural cognition. 

Between the newsroom and the pub: The mobile phone in the dynamics of everyday mainstream journalism practice in Zimbabwe

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 692-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Constructivist Approaches

This article uses an ethnographic case-study approach to investigate the deployment of the mobile phone by Zimbabwean mainstream print journalists in the dynamics of their daily professional routines and practices. The study’s theoretical and conceptual framework draws on social constructivist approaches to technology and the sociology of journalism to provide a direction for conceptualizing the interplay between journalists, their immediate context of practice and the wider socio-political and economic milieu that collectively structure and constrain the appropriation of the mobile phone. The findings suggest that the technology has assumed a taken-for-granted role in the routine operations of journalists and, in particular, that it is redefining traditional newsmaking practices. The article concludes that the cultural and social appropriations of the mobile phone by Zimbabwean mainstream journalists suggest that the technology has acquired new meanings in the social context of its appropriation. Its pervasiveness in everyday life has facilitated the blurring of the boundaries between the work and the private life of journalists.

scholarly journals KAJIAN SOSIO-RELIGIUS PENERAPAN SANKSI ADAT KANORAYANG DI DESA PAKRAMAN BAKBAKAN KECAMATAN GIANYAR, KABUPATEN GIANYAR

WIDYANATYA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-31
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Putu Eka Suadnyana ◽  
Ni Wayan Yuniastuti
Keyword(s):  
Customary Law ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Village Organization ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Temple

Pakraman Bakbakan Village is one of the areas in the Balinese customary law area which also has regulations governing the lives of its people which are basically poured into awig-awig forms that are generally owned by all Pakraman Villages in Bali. In awig-awig, Pakraman Bakbakan Village, there is one adat sanction, namely Kanorayang adat sanction which is still preserved. The application of Kanorayang customary sanctions is based on awig-awig Desa Pakraman Bakbakan Palet Kaping XX (Indik Pamidanda). The imposition of Kanorayang adat sanctions is applied as an act of expulsion from Pakraman village customary activities so that those who are subject to the kanorayang adat sanctions lose their rights and obligations within the Pakraman Village organization. For those who are subject to customary sanctions in the village of Pakraman Bakbakan will not be able to use traditional facilities such as the temple of heaven, setra or grave, infrastructure owned by the Pakraman village (wantilan, village bale, aykul kulkul, etc.). This study uses a qualitative research design through an ethnographic case study approach with an emphasis on critical and interpretive studies without ignoring the study of empirical elements. By collecting data through sampling techniques, where in this study is purposive sampling through people who are considered key (key person) and understand about the application of customary sanctions in the village of Pakraman Bakbakan Pakraman. This research can be used as a critique and suggestion so that in the process of implementing customary sanctions the canor does not deviate from the objectives of customary law itself. And with the existence of customary sanctions in the village of Pakraman Bakbakan is expected to maintain harmony and in an atmosphere of "paras-paros, gilik-saguluk, salunglung-sabayantaka".

scholarly journals The multilingual workplace realities of Polish truckers: A case study in the Netherlands

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca E. Dijkstra ◽  
Matt Coler ◽  
Gisela Redeker
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Workplace Interactions ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Multilingual Workplace

AbstractAlthough international truckers are essential to the European supply chain, we know little about how they deal with their frequent multilingual workplace interactions. This paper examines the effects of participants’ Individual Multilingual Repertoires (Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2016. World Englishes and creative idioms in English as a lingua franca. World Englishes 35(2). 293–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12196) on their behavior and attitude toward multilingual interactions. Five Polish truckers and six Dutch logistics professionals were observed and interviewed. An ethnographic case study approach allowed us to consider interactions from multiple perspectives. Findings from the study reveal that some, but not all, Polish truckers struggle to interact in the most common lingua francas in the Netherlands: English and German. We show that some of the Dutch logistics professionals have a low opinion of foreign drivers’ linguistic abilities, which impairs the potential to find shared multilingual resources, and ultimately to improve communication skills. Results of the study contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of multilingual interactions in the workplace. Practical suggestions for logistics professionals and future research are identified.

scholarly journals Occupational stress among law enforcement rangers: insights from Uganda

Oryx ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Moreto
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Wildlife Species ◽  
Occupational Task

AbstractIn many countries law enforcement rangers are frontline guardians responsible for the management, monitoring and protection of protected areas and wildlife species. To date, little research has been conducted on law enforcement rangers and their perceptions of stress. This exploratory study contributes to both the criminological and conservation literature by exploring an important human dimension often neglected in conservation science research: law enforcement rangers. Similar to previous research on police occupational stress, it is expected that law enforcement rangers experience stressors unique to their profession. Utilizing an ethnographic case study approach based on interviews and participant observation, this research examines ranger perceptions of occupational stress in a protected area in Uganda. Findings indicate that law enforcement rangers are exposed to various occupational/task-related, external, internal, and occupation-related personal strains. Results from the study have implications in understanding, reducing and preventing occupational stress in rangers, as well as in capacity building for park management.

scholarly journals Family firm succession in tourism and hospitality: an ethnographic case study approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kallmuenzer ◽  
Kayhan Tajeddini ◽  
Thilini Chaturika Gamage ◽  
Daniel Lorenzo ◽  
Alvaro Rojas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Succession Process ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

PurposeGrounded in stewardship theory, this study explores the motives, actions and meanings of multiple stakeholders involved in an inter-family hospitality family firm succession.Design/methodology/approachA longitudinal, ethnographic case study approach collects data from 15 in-depth interviews, one year of observation and a one-month on-site internship.FindingsResults show that a well-defined succession plan and the active involvement of the successor/s in the succession process would foster a strong stewardship commitment to the family business. Moreover, a clear and open communication strategy is required to strategically manage rivalry and competition among potential successors during an inter-family succession.Originality/valueThe succession process of family firms remains an intensely discussed phenomenon, and despite its importance to the tourism and hospitality industry, the intersection between tourism and hospitality and family business literature is sparse. Notably, the tourism and hospitality literature lacks a multiple stakeholder perspective to holistically capture the motives, actions and meanings of numerous stakeholders involved in an inter-family succession.

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