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Etnografía transnacional: hacia una conversación honesta

25 May 2026 Marcos Emilio Pérez Realizar trabajo de campo cualitativo transnacional durante un doctorado es una gran experiencia. La oportunidad de conocer sobre otras personas, explorar un tema relevante y desarrollar habilidades hace que la etnografía sea muy gratificante, tanto a nivel personal como profesional. Sin embargo, también es una metodología exigente, especialmente para…

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…

Ethnographic Marginalia

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Etnografía transnacional: hacia una conversación honesta

Messy Methods: Ethnography Under Structural Violence

Crossing Borders to Do Fieldwork: Towards an Honest Conversation

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