AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND MULTI-SITED ETHNOGRAPHY IN MIGRATION STUDIES Cover Image

AUTOETNOGRAFIA A ETNOGRAFIA WIELOSTANOWISKOWA W STUDIACH MIGRACYJNYCH
AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND MULTI-SITED ETHNOGRAPHY IN MIGRATION STUDIES

Author(s): Łukasz Krzyżowski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwa AGH
Keywords: autoethnography; multi-sited ethnography; transmigration; history; migration studies

Summary/Abstract: The article examines autoethnography (as a form of methodological nationalism), a conceptual tendency that is helpful in the process of the construction of a multi-sited research fi eld, (multi-sited ethnography), at two levels: spatial and temporal. I maintain that this type of data, (migration researcher’s experience and history of migration of the family and local community), allows a better understanding of the nature of migration, which is understood as a process of long duration. More importantly, today’s migrants perceive the migration of a hundred years ago, as well as the present, precisely as transmigration, and not as emigration or immigration.

  • Issue Year: 8/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 25-40
  • Page Count: 1
  • Language: Polish