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“Strengths” and “Limitations” of New/Classical Concepts, Methods and Methodologies to Study Inequality and Intersectionality in Family Life across Borders and Cultures
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC06 Family Research (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
The manifestation of inequality and intersectionality in institutional contexts, in public discourse on migrant families and in their everyday lives are well-researched. The studies report on “troubling” migrant families and on interconnected ethnic, racial, economic, gender and intimate relations discrimination in different realities of migrant family life (immigrant, emigrant, return migration, transnationalism), in different age groups of migrant family members, and in different types of family configuration and couple relations (marriage, cohabitation, bi-national, same-sex couples, etc.). This session welcomes papers that illustrate methodological reflections on testing newly emerging concepts, innovative methods and methodologies with empirical research data on doing and displaying families across borders and cultures, as well as on researching transnational care chains, changing family and intimate relations, generational relations, family memory and personal identities.
We encourage presenters to reflect on how newly emerging concepts and innovative methodologies ‘worked out’ in the field of, for example, identity, memory, intergenerational solidarity, family practices research, contribute to a better understanding of inequalities and intersectionality in migrant family life. What are the advantages and/or challenges of using these concepts and methods? Moreover, what are the “strengths” and “limitations” of the widely accepted research tools when they come to be applied in specific context of migrant family life? How can concepts and methodologies utilized and/or developed in qualitative research studies be applied to quantitative studies of migrant families, and vice versa? Papers based on quantitative, qualitative and methodologically complex studies are welcomed.