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Messy Methods: Ethnography Under Structural Violence

27 March 2026 Priyanjali Mitra I initially intended to study the working lives of migrant workers in a city I grew up in and thought I knew. What I was not prepared for was how consistently those conversations kept turning toward fear, precarity, everyday violence as one register of a much larger, layered order of…

Crossing Borders to Do Fieldwork: Towards an Honest Conversation

13 March 2026 Marcos Emilio Pérez Doing transnational qualitative fieldwork as a graduate student can be an incredible experience. The opportunity to learn about other people’s lives, explore a topic you care about, and hone your skills make ethnography both personally and professionally rewarding. However, it is also a very demanding endeavor, especially for early-career…

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Messy Methods: Ethnography Under Structural Violence

Crossing Borders to Do Fieldwork: Towards an Honest Conversation

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