Research Ethics and Data Archiving: Current Challenges in Biographical Migration Research

The question of archiving data and secondary analysis is viewed very critically in biographical migration research in German-speaking social sciences. It is largely rejected because biographical data is highly sensitive data material, and the social and political consequences of migration cannot be estimated for secondary analysis. In my paper I would like to discuss ethical problems of data archiving and secondary analysis of biographical narrative interviews.I will reflect on whether and how digital archiving and secondary analysis of selected types of data can be implemented in the research field of biographical migration research.