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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book explores the challenges and opportunities involved in conducting research with members of immigrant, refugee and other minoritized communities. Through first-hand reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied linguistics, educational research and anthropological investigations of language, literacy and culture. By critically reflecting on the power and limits of university-based research conducted on behalf of, or in collaboration with, members of local communities and by exploring the complicated relationships, dynamics and understandings that emerge, the chapters collectively demonstrate the value of reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of the research process, including the ethical and emotional dimensions of participating in collaborative research." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Language, Culture and Identity
1 'I have so many things to tell you, but I don't know English': Linguistic Challenges and Language Brokering
/ Chatwara Suwannamai Duran
2 Revisiting Our Understandings in Ethnographic Research
/ Ayfer Gokalp
The Trouble with Operationalizing People: My Research with Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
/ Christopher Browder
4 A Researcher's Coming-of-Age through Participatory Action Research: The Intersections of Cultures, Identities and Institutions
/ Emily Feuerherm

Part 2: Researcher Roles and Reciprocity
5 Doing Ethnographic Research as an Insider-Outsider: Reflections on Building Relationships and Doing Reciprocity
/ Rosalva Mojica Lagunas
6 Researcher-Participant Relationships in Cross-Language Research: Becoming Cultural and Linguistic Insiders
/ Sarah Young Knowles
7 Researching from the Margin: Challenges and Tensions of Doing Research within One's Own Refugee Community
/ Nimo M. Abdi
8 Working Toward a Humanizing Research Stance: Reflections on Modifying the Interview Process
/ Daisy E. Fredricks

Part 3: Relationships, Ethics, Power and Equity
9 Ethics in Practice and Answerability in Complex, Multi-participant Studies
/ Katie A. Bernstein
10 Weaving Reciprocity in Research with(in) Immigrant and Refugee Communities
/ Nicole Pettitt
11 Anonymity, Vulnerability and Informed Consent: An Ethical-Methodological Tale
/ Kristen H. Perry
12 The Emotional Dimensions of Qualitative Community-Driven Research: How Interactions and Relationships Shape Processes of Knowledge Production
/ Katherine E. Morelli and Doris S. Warriner
13 Perspectives on Power and Equity in Community-Based Participatory Action Research Projects
/ Martha Bigelow, Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Khalid Adam, Mikow Hang, Luis Enrique Ortega, Shannon Pergament, Amy Shanafelt and Michele Allen

Index