Interviews with women in India

Turnbull, Brian

doi:10.1177/1468794118803837

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“…In any research with human subjects, an inherent power imbalance stems from the hierarchical orders based on the researcher’s role as an investigator and the participants’ role as the subject of study (Banerjee & Sowards, 2020; Turnbull, 2018; Vähäsantanen & Saarinen, 2013). The needed knowledge gap between researcher and participants causes a socially linguistic divide even in mono-linguistic conversation.…”

Section: Cultural and Cross-cultural Research Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The two authors are multilingual, and their ability benefits their international and translational research. While indicating the linguistic challenges and fieldwork privileges and shortcomings, this paper and similar scholarly works (Turnbull, 2018; Vähäsantanen & Saarinen, 2013; Osanami Törngren & Nge, 2018) explore the hierarchical relationship between the participant and researcher when there are linguistic limitations for first-generation immigrants and ethnic minority community members.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Linguistic Challenges of Fieldwork for First-Generation Ethnic Researchers

Khayambashi

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Language is a significant part of any fieldwork in cultural and cross-cultural qualitative research. With a growing number of 1.25-, 1.5- and second-generation children of immigrant families entering academia, many assume their bilingual proficiency helps them bypass translational and linguistic challenges. Based on my fieldwork experience, I am exploring the linguistic challenges of intragroup research. While I presumed my bilingualism in English and Farsi would help me build communal rapport during my fieldwork, I was surprised by my participants’ choice of broken English and refusal to complete their interview in Farsi. In this article, I argue that my positionality as a researcher and the intruding Anglo culture in the research process diminished my communal identity and intensified my hierarchical position. Upon assessing the linguistic challenges, I will make recommendations and suggestions to address similar challenges in the fieldwork.

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Section: Cultural and Cross-cultural Research Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultural and Cross-cultural Research Challengesmentioning

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Linguistic Challenges of Fieldwork for First-Generation Ethnic Researchers

Khayambashi

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Qualitative researchers (often using interviews) aim to understand how people experience, perceive, and make sense of their lives (Kornbluh, 2015). Consequently, interviews require the researcher to account for the unique social dynamics and norms of a particular society as they influence the interview process and interactions with participants (Turnbull, 2019). During this process researchers experience difficulties, challenges, experiences, and emotions during fieldwork which should be taken into account and reflected upon by researchers (Thummapol et al, 2019).…”

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Getting Extreme Poverty Narrated: Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Older Persons

Akram

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Interviewing different groups involves different challenges and opportunities. Older persons living in extreme poverty are among those who warrant special methodological considerations. Building on the experiences of life-history interviews with extreme poor older persons in Bangladesh, this article contributes with a methodological reflection on the interview process from the start to the end. The article highlights the key practical, emotional, and ethical concerns that impact the interview process. Adopting an activist approach, it asserts that offering additional power and (or) agency to poor and vulnerable participants yields more benefit to research. The article challenges the traditional consent-seeking process as it remains short of protecting the participants fully. Period of silence appears to be crucial in interviews for which a researcher should devise schemes on how to manage and analyze silence as a non-textual interview content. The paper stresses on the need to frame plans and protocols for the researchers themselves as they can be exposed to mental, physical, or social harm. It recommends reformulation of the idea of accountability toward the research participants in relation to incentivisation, dissemination and reporting back to the community. Understanding all such nuances and careful dealing of micro-ethical aspects are crucial to succeed in an interview. The article can be particularly beneficial for early-stage researchers who conduct interviews with people living in extreme poverty, as it makes them more aware and prepared to deal with the possible challenges inherent in different stages of the interview process.

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“…While it was not completely impossible for me to interview more women and have a ‘gender balance’ among my research participants, I decided not to push for it mainly because of two reasons. Both from my experiences and drawing on other male researchers studying females in South Asia I knew that 1) in a regular rural South Asian setting women are more likely to be comfortable talking to an unrelated male when their male partners are around instead of in an artificially created private space and 2) interviews in such an artificially private space would pose questions about the genuineness of their answers (Jones, 2008; Turnbull, 2019). Of course, my intention is not to defend the ‘gender imbalance’ in my research but to consider realities on the ground.…”

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Navigating the ‘field’: Reflexivity, uncertainties, and negotiation along the border of Bangladesh and India

Ferdoush

2020

Ethnography

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Drawing on a fourteen-month ethnographic fieldwork experience along the border of Bangladesh and India, I offer a narrative of daily challenges and uncertainties in the ‘field’. Highlighting my positionality and reflexivity, I suggest that first, although a researcher may use social capital to gain access, it may raise concerns regarding the genuineness of the participant’s response. Second, with careful attention, unplanned moments and spontaneous conversations can be turned into sources for valuable insight. Third, pushing the boundaries of social norms to attain a textbook example of ‘gender balance’ does not necessarily ‘add value’ to the research; instead, is likely to make it more challenging to access the same population for further research. Finally, I reaffirm that being from the same region with a similar background does not make the researcher an ‘insider’. Rather, their positionality becomes more ‘fluid’ and constantly shifts between an insider, an outsider, both, and sometimes none.

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Interviews with women in India

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Linguistic Challenges of Fieldwork for First-Generation Ethnic Researchers

Linguistic Challenges of Fieldwork for First-Generation Ethnic Researchers

Getting Extreme Poverty Narrated: Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Older Persons

Navigating the ‘field’: Reflexivity, uncertainties, and negotiation along the border of Bangladesh and India

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