Process Recordings

Determinants and Socioeconomic Impacts of Migrant Remittances: A Study of Rural Bangladeshi Migrants in Italy

“…It involves an overall approach or methodology underpinning a researchable problem (Deshpande 1983), and. to Creswell (2003), quantitative (Bonoma 1985), inductive and deductive (Parkhe 1993), and feminist and postmodern (Neuman 2006).…”

“…Quantitative research is usually based on a positivist paradigm and generally involves hypothesis testing (Sobh & Perry 2006;Creswell & Clark 2007). Some critics of the positivist paradigm argue that positivism interprets the participants' responses using statistical formulas which may lack sensitivity to the research context (Neuman 2006).…”

“…The sampling process in this study involved several steps: defining the population, selecting the sample frame and unit, choosing the sampling technique, deciding on the sample plan, and determining the sample size (Luck & Rubin 1987;Kinnear & Taylor 1996;Churchill1999;Zikmund 2003;Neuman 2006). The population is the entire group of households that the investigator must examine, while the element is a single member of that population (Zikmund 2003;Bryman 2004;Davis 2005;Burns & Bush 2006;Neuman 2006).…”

“…The target population is the specific pool of cases that needs to be investigated (Zikmund 2003;Neuman 2006). The sampling frame includes a specific list that closely approximates all the elements in the population from which the sample may be drawn, that is, the 'working population' (Sekaran 2003;Zikmund 2003;Davis 2005;Burns & Bush 2006;Neuman 2006).…”

“…This chapter provides a review of the existing knowledge of the topic under examination to enable its conceptualistion with accuracy and clarity (Neuman 2006). As per the advice of a number of authors (Perry 2002;Marshall & Rossman 1999;Baker 2000;Sekaran 2003;Neuman 2006), the review of literature in this research thesis is undertaken with the following goals: Section 2.8 discusses the theoretical framework for this study.…”