The Potential for Mixed Methods: Results from the Field in Urban South Africa

Warshawsky, Daniel N.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2013.768141

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“…This initial scoping review informed our interview guides and helped us to identify potential participants. Data triangulation is also important in open-ended, inductive studies because it allows us to corroborate information, compare narratives, and to discover points of tension across the complementary methodological techniques (Warshawsky 2014).…”

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Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada’s Aspiring Gateways

Pottie‐Sherman

Graham

2020

Geographical Review

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Global research on new immigrant destinations prioritizes the study of places experiencing rapid demographic change. Immigration is increasingly promoted, however, as a policy tool to encourage stability in peripheral regions, cities, and communities. This paper introduces the concept of the aspiring gateway to describe locations that attract few immigrants but proactively aspire to become welcoming communities. We make this case through an examination of the geographies of immigrant receptivity in Atlantic Canada. Our findings are based on 22 interviews with participants in the immigration sector in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Highlighting the powerful role of non-state actors and public discourses, our analysis considers the ambiguities and mixed messages of the place-based immigration policies of this region. We argue that a more pluralistic understanding of immigrant gateways must include peripheral spaces that are relatively isolated from international migration flows. Aspiring gateways require a rethinking of assumptions formed in and about new immigrant destinations. Keywords: immigration, immigrant receptivity, new immigrant destinations, urban, Canada. "What can Appalachia learn from Atlantic Canada?" asked a 2018 editorial in The Roanoke Times, referring to pro-immigration strategies in Canada's easternmost provinces and their Submitted version_Aspiring Gateways, Pottie-Sherman and Graham 2 potential to address economic challenges in Virginia's coal counties. Along similar lines, a recent proposal for a place-based visa-the Heartland Visa-calls for U.S. immigration reform to aid struggling regions, citing the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) as a model (Ozimek et al. 2019). Unlike the U.S., encouraging immigration to and supporting integration in non-traditional destinations have become some of the central goals of Canadian immigration federalism: the system of shared management of immigration by the provinces, territories, and federal government which emerged in the 1990s (IRCC 2018; Paquet 2019). Proimmigration proposals in America's coal counties stand out in a period in which anti-immigrant rhetoric is increasingly prevalent (Marrow 2020). At the same time, calls that celebrate Atlantic Canada as an immigration success story are surprising given the region has the lowest immigration levels in Canada (Statistics Canada 2017). These contradictions illustrate the need for migration studies in peripheral regions. How are international migration experiences transforming places and regions on the periphery, and conversely, how are such locations transforming themselves to encourage international migration? What, if any, approaches can be adapted? Writing from St. John's, Canada's easternmost city, our questions are inspired by calls to decenter urban studies to consider what takes place beyond major cities, on the periphery, and in unconventional urban spaces (e.g., Roy 2011; Derickson 2015). Global research on "new immigrant destinat...

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada’s Aspiring Gateways

Pottie‐Sherman

Graham

2020

Geographical Review

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“…Our approach to analysing these data discrepancies was what can be termed triangulation for divergence (Nightingale ), which recognises that all forms of knowledge are partial and situated. Because each method used, as well as smallholder responses to our questions, represent different epistemological standpoints (Warshawsky ), each data set reveals a different understanding of climate change. In triangulation for divergence, ‘dissonance, gaps and silences’ between data sets generate new data to be analysed (Nightingale ) and present empirical puzzles (Greene ) that can deepen our understanding of human–environment interactions, such as how climate change is perceived by smallholders.…”

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Making sense of climate change: hybrid epistemologies, socio‐natural assemblages and smallholder knowledge

Burnham

Zhang

2015

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This paper uses a mixed-method approach to investigate smallholder perceptions of climate change in the Loess Plateau region of China. We combine qualitative and quantitative research methods with climate data analysis to gauge the climatic changes smallholders have perceived over the last 30 years, as well as how these changes have been experienced. At two research sites, each method produced markedly different results. Drawing on the work of feminist political ecologists and other geographers, we suggest that the dissonance between data sets generated using different research methods arises because each method produces knowledge that is partial and situated. To explain the contradictions between smallholder perceptions of climate change across the qualitative and quantitative methods and their disagreement with the climate record, we adopt aspects of assemblage theory and the dwelling perspective to suggest that smallholder knowledge of climate change is structured through their observations of and interactions with dynamic, networked socio-natural assemblages. We argue that a better understanding of the conduits through which perceptions and experiences of climate change come into being, and hence how climate knowledge is shaped, is necessary to account for the multiple epistemologies through which climate change is known.

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“…In addition to the range of informal street vendors and formal food retailers which are scattered across urban food systems, governments deliver social welfare programs (Devereux ; Satterthwaite and Mitlin ) and regulate the food economy through the implementation of tariffs and exchange rates for imported food, use of food price subsidies and price ceilings, and development of regional trade policies (Maxwell ; Stevens and Kennan ). FCSOs promote urban agriculture, emergency food services, and mobilize food social movements (FSMs) (Atkinson ; Warshawsky 2013, 2014); and food corporations promote their philanthropic initiatives (Roy ).…”

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“…FSCOs provide critical social services in places where the state or private sector fails to meet basic needs (Warshawsky ), increase awareness of critical food challenges facing cities, and contribute to the growth of urban social movements (Bond ; Greenberg ). Yet, even though FSCOs have grown in importance, they remain poorly understood by scholars (Warshawsky , ). This has resulted in an inadequate conceptualization of FCSOs' institutional roles, governance structures, and potential impacts.…”

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Civil Society and the Governance of Urban Food Systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Warshawsky

2016

Geography Compass

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Rapid urbanization of the planet has placed pressure on humanity to build sustainable, healthy, and socially just cities. In particular, key challenges associated with food access threaten the livability of the urban environment. For this reason, research on urban food systems has increased significantly, as scholars have studied the production, distribution, acquisition, consumption, and waste of food. However, key research gaps persist, as it remains unclear how urban food systems are governed and the roles that different institutions play to ensure that cities are livable. In particular, while food civil society organizations (FCSOs) have emerged as important players in urban food systems in lower-income regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, FCSOs are poorly understood. This has resulted in an inadequate theorization of their institutional roles, governance structures, and potential impacts. To fill this critical research gap, this paper analyzes the roles of FCSOs, including the range of food non-governmental organizations (FNGOs), food community-based organizations (FCBOs), and food social movements (FSMs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. While this paper highlights the range of scholarship devoted to urban food systems, key empirical and theoretical gaps remain unanswered by scholars. Importantly, the size, structure, and spatiality of urban food systems are not well understood. In addition, it remains unclear how FCSOs intersect with broader political, economic, and social processes of inequality. Moreover, given the range of informal livelihood strategies that urban residents utilize to access food, more scholarship is needed to understand the innovative ways that FSCOs are integrated into the daily lives of people residing in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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The Potential for Mixed Methods: Results from the Field in Urban South Africa

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada’s Aspiring Gateways

Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada’s Aspiring Gateways

Making sense of climate change: hybrid epistemologies, socio‐natural assemblages and smallholder knowledge

Civil Society and the Governance of Urban Food Systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa

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