Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478003953)

In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia Lez Ju疵ez and Mirian A. Mijangos Garc僘--two local immigrant workers from Latin America--joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos Garc僘 and Lez Ju疵ez transformed the project's activist and academic dimensions. In so doing, they offer a guide for those wishing to expand the potential of ethnography to serve as a means for social transformation and decolonization.

Author: Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia Lez Ju疵ez, Mirian A. Mijangos Garc僘
ISBN-10: 1478003952
ISBN-13: 9781478003953
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2019
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019