DeSipio, Louis, Manuel Garcia y Griego, and Sherri Kossoudji, eds. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007.
An SSRC Book of essays by Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows designed to offer general lessons on the selection , combination, and use of various quantitative and qualitative research methods

In this web-publication, fellows of the International Migration Program reflect upon their experience conducting research on international migration to the United States. Although their essays describe the substantive findings of their research, their main focus is on the multiple methods employed in producing those findings. The narratives of methodological practices in this publication have been selected in part because they address central themes and questions of international migration studies and will be substantively relevant to the research findings of other scholars in the field. More significantly, the experiences of these researchers have broader relevance and can be useful to all social scientists who are wondering how to cope with the methodological issues that will ultimately determine the validity of their findings, both within the social sciences and for the public debates that they hope to inform.

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Contents

• Front Matter
  PDF Document, 41KB
• Editors and Contributors
  PDF Document, 103KB
• Preface
  PDF Document, 70KB
  by Josh DeWind and Jennifer Holdaway
• Introduction
  PDF Document, 87KB
  by Sherrie Kossoudji, Louis DeSipio, and Manuel Garcia y Griego
• Igloos in Borneo: Variation and Conceptualization in Research on Foreign Workers
  PDF Document, 184KB
  by David Bartram
• Of Puzzles and Serendipity: Doing Cross-National, Mixed Method Immigration Research
  PDF Document, 169KB
  by Irene Bloemraad
• From the Field: Asian and Latino Immigrants in the New York City Garment Industry
  PDF Document, 193KB
  by Margaret Chin
• In Search of a Methodology & Other Tales from the Academic Crypt
  PDF Document, 172KB
  by Anna O. Law
• Using Publicly Released Data Files to Study Immigration: Confessions of a Positivist
  PDF Document, 189KB
  by Bruce Newbold
• Understanding Migrants’ Remittances: Evidence from the U.S.—Nigeria Migration Survey
  PDF Document, 196KB
  by Una Okonkwo Osili
• Changing the Research Question: Lessons from Qualitative Research
  PDF Document, 190KB
  by Connie G. Oxford
• Thoughts on the Use of Semistructured Interviews in Exploring Ethnic and Gender Inequality in Silicon Valley
  PDF Document, 141KB
  by Johanna Shih
• Multisited Ethnography in Peru, Japan, and the United States
  PDF Document, 184KB
  by Ayumi Takenaka
• Immigrants and "American" Franchises: Research Challenges in New Lines of Inquiry
  PDF Document, 186KB
  by Jennifer Parker Talwar