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Beyond Indigenous Authenticity: Reflections on the Insider/Outsider Debate in Immigration Research
Author(s) -
Kusow Abdi M.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.2003.26.4.591
Subject(s) - insider , somali , ethnography , immigration , scholarship , indigenous , argument (complex analysis) , sociology , field (mathematics) , field research , gender studies , criminology , ethnology , social science , anthropology , political science , law , philosophy , ecology , pure mathematics , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , biology
The insider/outsider debate in field research has recently been identified as one of the more important areas of needed research in immigration scholarship. My fieldwork as a native ethnographer among Somali immigrants to Canada is used to further that argument by showing the insatiability of categories such as native ethnographers and that the insider/outsider roles are products of the particular situation in which a given fieldwork takes place and not from the status characteristics per se of the researcher.