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Doing No Harm and Getting It Right: Guidelines for Ethical Research with Immigrant Communities
Author(s) -
Hernández María G.,
Nguyen Jacqueline,
Casanova Saskias,
SuárezOrozco Carola,
Saetermoe Carrie L.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cad.20042
Subject(s) - immigration , harm , research ethics , public relations , data collection , informed consent , psychology , research design , political science , sociology , social psychology , law , medicine , social science , alternative medicine , pathology , psychiatry
This chapter provides a guide to research logistics and ethics in studying immigrant families. The authors outline major pragmatic issues in research design and data collection to which all scholars must attend, although current practices often do not respond to the idiosyncratic issues related to vulnerable immigrant populations (e.g., undocumented immigrants). The chapter presents vital procedures to ensure both the protection of research participants from immigrant backgrounds and validity of the data collected from them and seeks to be a source of reference for institutional review boards (IRBs). Specific issues addressed include navigating IRBs, informed consent, recruitment and sampling, and translation of instruments and interviews. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.