Description
2 page essay about start researching the topic and identifying possible people you can interview about their immigration experiences. Ideally, you should choose a site, people, and/or an organization with which you are not familiar. Although you need not restrict your choices, you are strongly encouraged to consider the conditions that will make your project feasible before the end of class.
The Fieldwork Plan is a brief description (2 pages) of your proposed research plan. This plan must accomplish the following:
- Identify where you’ll be conducting your research and what justifies that choice
- Explain how you’ll be conducting your research and what you plan to accomplish
- Plan some of your interview questions and discuss how your project relates to anthropological research
- List a short bibliography of peer-reviewed scholarly sources (at least 5) that you plan to consult in your final paper. These sources must be from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and/or books. Wikipedia and other similar sources are not acceptable.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: THE FIELDWORK PLAN
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The Fieldwork Plan
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The Fieldwork Plan
1. Identify Where You’ll Be Conducting Your Research And What Justifies That
Choice
Research on immigration touches primarily on refugees and forced immigrants. From an
anthropological perspective, displacement of people is considered a phenomenon that affects the
individuals uprooted, the host communities, international agencies, and governments. One of the
issues in recent news surrounding immigration is the separation of children from their parents
and care-givers at the border. The best way to understand the social and cultural dimensions of
unaccompanied minors is to conduct interviews at the immigration court. The U.S.-Mexico
border and American immigration laws have created a humanitarian and chi...