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Editorial: Biographical Methods in Migration Research

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  • THEODOROS IOSIFIDES

    (University of Sheffield,Department of Geography, UK.)

  • DEBORAH SPORTON

    (University of the Aegean, Department of Geography, Greece.)

Abstract

During the last decades, qualitative biographical/narrative methods gained a prominent position within the spectrum of social science methodology and research practice, mainly due to a reaction to the positivist-empiricist domi-nance and associated views of social reality. After an initial interest to bio-graphical methods, which followed the edition of ‘The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1919-1921)’ by Thomas and Znaniecki (1958), bio-graphical and generally qualitative research methods gave way to empiri-cist-quantitative approaches and only since the end of 1960 the positivist domination begun to be unsettled (Halfacree and Boyle 1993; Findlay and Li 1997; Tsiolis 2006).

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  • Theodoros Iosifides & Deborah Sporton, 2009. "Editorial: Biographical Methods in Migration Research," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 6(2), pages 101-108, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:6:y:2009:i:2:p:101-108
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    1. Krajewska Malwina, 2020. "Tracing the impact of The Polish Peasant… – from rural sociology to migration studies," Eastern European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 26(1), pages 312-326, December.
    2. Krajewska Malwina, 2019. "Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America," Eastern European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 25(1), pages 253-259, December.

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    Biographical methods; research practice;

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