It is studied how female migrants as social actors with their own goals and strategies ‘negotiate’ the meanings and statuses imposed on them by ‘official’ policies and discourses and how they construct and challenge formal (official) categorisations in their life-stories (narrations), both in relation to their individual life-histories and in relation to their families. The aim is to show how marriage migration is not a unitary concept, as it can encompass diverse families, motives forms of migration and institutional contexts.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 30346541The contribution analyses the potential and difficulties of conducting migration research across ethnic lines of the research participants, the issue of comparability of such research results and the dangers of essentialising ethnic identities, i.e. migrants of specific ethnic groups. The issue of standpoint (positionality of the researcher), the issue of ‘insiderness’ and ‘outsiderness’, the issue of transnational ties and organisation of research beyond the traditional nation-state paradigm, are the main emphasis of the analysis.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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