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Title: Introduction to Immigrant Detention in Poland. Theory and Methodology

Introduction to Immigrant Detention in Poland. Theory and Methodology

by Dariusz Niedźwiedzki (Author) Jacek Schmidt (Author)
©2023 Monographs 282 Pages
History & Political Science
Series: Studies in European Integration, State and Society, Volume 16

Summary

The book consists of four chapters. The first one contains information about the topic which introduce the project’s characteristics, and, at the same time, provide the background for further theoretical and methodological reflection. The second chapter contains a list of research problems and questions, a presentation of the philosophical worldviews (research paradigms) of the project team who guided the planned research and which resulted in the adoption of research strategies compatible with them, and, consequently, procedures and techniques for obtaining source materials and their analysis. In the third chapter, we present a set of terms, ideas, and concepts which inspired the project team as useful tools for describing and analysing the phenomenon under study. The fourth chapter is a kind of ligature that binds together all the previous findings, it is a summary of integrating ideas, concepts, as well as the adopted research procedures and techniques.

Table Of Contents

  • Couverture
  • Titre
  • Copyright
  • À propos de l’auteur
  • À propos du livre
  • Pour référencer cet eBook
  • Table of Contents
  • List of photographs
  • List of figures
  • List of documents
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • The research project – ‘behind the scene’
  • What does the detention of foreigners denote?
  • Our first steps in the field
  • The research team
  • Sites, time, and conditions of the research
  • Ethical issues
  • Research project: ‘scene one’
  • The anticipated problems and research questions
  • Research paradigms
  • Research strategies
  • Qualitative approach
  • Interdisciplinarity – transdisciplinarity – multidisciplinarity
  • The idea of triangulation
  • Autoethnography and reflectiveness
  • Case study
  • Research methods
  • Source databases
  • Research subjects – selection of the sample
  • Research techniques – ways of collecting materials
  • Analyses
  • Research project – ‘scene two’
  • Space – place – non-place
  • Organisational culture
  • Other theoretical inspirations
  • Symbolic interactionism
  • Developed theory of morphogenesis
  • Total institutions
  • The patron–client concept
  • Research project – ‘scene three’
  • Theoretical and methodological schemes
  • Previous publications, directions for further work and the expected results
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on the authors and other members of the research team
  • Annex

Introduction

In the spring of 2018, after almost a two-year long endeavour, our research team was unexpectedly granted permission by the Commander-in-Chief of the Border Guard of the Republic of Poland to carry out field studies in all the six guarded centres for foreigners (GCFs) in Poland. The research idea had been developed much earlier and we were awaiting an opportunity to implement it in the field, which tends to be inaccessible to external observers, including representatives of the academic world. It should be stressed that the permission did not include any expectations of the authority managing the institutions in question towards the researchers such as the right of access to source materials, making expert opinions, preparation of educational materials, etc.1

Details

Pages
282
Year
2023
ISBN (PDF)
9783631907573
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631907580
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631903292
DOI
10.3726/b21190
Language
English
Publication date
2023 (December)
Keywords
Immigrant detention Migration Research methodology Interdisciplinarity Dariusz Niedźwiedzk Jacek Schmidt Introduction to Immigrant Detention in Poland
Published
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2023. 282 pp., 10 fig. col., 24 fig. b/w.

Biographical notes

Dariusz Niedźwiedzki (Author) Jacek Schmidt (Author)

Dariusz Niedźwiedzki, associate professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His scientific interests include research on social identity, migration, social memory, social and cultural changes in the integrating Europe, and the relationship between culture and politics. Jacek Schmidt, associate professor at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His areas of interest are: European migrations, methodology of the social sciences, border studies, stereotype- and myth-creating processes, and antisemitism.

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