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Conclusion: Migration Research in Times of Ubiquitous Digitization
Full text linkIn this concluding chapter, the book’s editors stress the epochal status of the digital revolution and urge migration scholars to leverage innovative information and communication technology for enhancing their research designs. New technological options may contribute significantly to improving the viability and quality of researcher-defined data collections, yet their full potential comes to bear with regard to massive datasets generated by third parties, such as digital trace data. Since the center of gravity of social studies is predicted to shift increasingly towards the repurposing of such accrued data, migration researchers are advised to seek close cooperation with data scientists. In addition to methodological pluralism and interdisciplinary collaboration, the editors emphasize the need for ethical safeguards and accountability as major challenges this ongoing transformation entails
Introduction: Using Innovative Technologies to Tackle Methodological Challenges in Migration Research
Full text linkIn this introductory chapter, the editors suggest that the increasing need for rigorous data on international migration warrants enhanced co-operation between migration scholars, survey methodologists, and data scientists. Innovative information and communication technology, it is argued, may contribute substantially to improving the design and implementation of migrant surveys, and digital trace data may complement traditional data sources in promising ways. These claims are substantiated in nine contributions, all of which are based on first-hand experience with data collection and processing. Some chapters discuss innovative strategies for improving sample designs and resolving survey design issues, whereas others address the emerging role of large-scale datasets that were generated for reasons alien to migration research
Condiciones laborales y calidad de vida de los inmigrantes en Andalucía
No full text¿Qué relación existe entre las dimensiones objetiva y subjetiva de la calidad de vida de los inmigrantes internacionales?. Este interrogativo es abordado, en el presente trabajo, sobre la base empírica de una encuesta representativa (N=1797) de la población inmigrante en Andalucía (España), realizada en la primavera del 2003 por el Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados de Andalucía (IESA-CSIC). Centrándose en la situación laboral, el artículo averigua si, entre los inmigrantes procedentes de países menos desarrollados asentados en Andalucía, existe una “paradoja de la satisfacción”, es decir, una tendencia a declararse satisfechos con una situación objetiva manifiestamente mejorable. Definiendo como paradójica una valoración positiva de una situación claramente adversa, resulta que, en el ámbito laboral, una tal paradoja se observa con relación a más de un 40% de aquellos trabajadores inmigrantes que se encuentran expuestos a condiciones laborales especialmente duras, perjudiciales en muchos casos para la propia salud física y/o psíquica. A primera vista, podría parecer que este nivel sorprendentemente alto de satisfacción está relacionado con la situación administrativa de los afectados, precaria en muchos casos. Según esta explicación, la satisfacción laboral radicaría fundamentalmente en el hecho de haber encontrado empleo a pesar de carecer de los permisos correspondientes. Sin embargo, el artículo demuestra que se trataría de una interpretación apresurada, no avalada por los datos. Se propone una interpretación alternativa relativa al deseo, muy difuso entre los inmigrantes, de acceder a una dinámica de movilidad ocupacional ascendente.Fil: Rinken, Sebastian. Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados de Andalucía; España
The AIDS Crisis and the modern self : biographical self-construction in the awareness of finitude
No full textIn industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. Receiving the diagnosis typically led to a dramatic biographical disruption. This highly original book turns this basic feature of life with [UV into the vantage point for a fascinating analysis of Western subjectivity. Combining a host of empirical observations with the debate on the modern self, the author argues that the self-construction of people with HIV highlights the precarious yet indispensable status of the self in contemporary Western society. Constructing one's biography in terms of self-actualization is in fact a manifestation of nihilism: it evokes a standard of certainty which, on closer examination, cannot be sustained. Written in a lucid style, this unique book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, social psychology social anthropology social theory and philosophy, as well, as anybody interested in the relationship between the self and society or the experience of living with HIV/A1RS.--Preface ix
--1. HIV and the self 1
--2. The problem of finitude 19
--3. Observing selves .35
--4. The "diagnosis of the self' 56
--5. From invalidation to reinforcement 93
--6. Seeking shelter amongst peers 113
--7. Contrasting patterns .136
--8. Mortal, all too mortal 161
--9. Thinking of finitude 180
--10. HIV, mortality and the self 204
--Appendix 217
--Bibliography 219
--Index 233Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 199
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Computer-Assisted Migration Research: What We Can Learn About Source Questionnaire Design and Translation from the Software Localization Field
Full text linkThis chapter examines the technical challenges involved in translating and adapting measurement instruments, i.e., questionnaires, for migration research. The first part outlines good practices in questionnaire translation. In line with the technology-based focus of this book, the second part focuses on computerized surveys and on the interplay between technology, language, and culture. Frameworks from the software localization field are consulted and transferred to the context of computerized multilingual surveys with respect to their impact on source questionnaire design and on translation and adaptation. Real-life examples come from our own experiences in international and migration research, as well as from a review of existing reports and research articles. The main goal of this chapter is to raise awareness of the additional technology layer that impacts translation and adaptation, with an ultimate goal to improve translation and adaptation processes, and the outcomes of migration research
Migration Research in a Digitized World
Full text linkThis open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and methodological expertise, the book addresses a range of crucial issues related to both researcher-designed data collections and the secondary use of “big data”, highlighting opportunities as well as challenges and limitations. A valuable source for students and scholars engaged in migration research, the book will also be of keen interest to policymakers
Migration Research in a Digitized World: Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges
Full text linkThis open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and methodological expertise, the book addresses a range of crucial issues related to both researcher-designed data collections and the secondary use of “big data”, highlighting opportunities as well as challenges and limitations. A valuable source for students and scholars engaged in migration research, the book will also be of keen interest to policymakers
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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