Using Photography in Studies of Immigrant Communities

Drawing on the author’s research with three migrant populations—Jews from the former Soviet Union, Vietnamese, and Israelis—this article offers several suggestions for integrating photography into fieldwork studies. Visual methods are shown to be useful for learning about the research context, gener...

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Published in:The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) 2004-08, Vol.47 (12), p.1551-1572
Main Author: Gold, Steven J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Documentary films
Ethnic communities
Ethnic groups
Ethnography
Field study
Fieldwork
Gender
Human behaviour
Immigrants
Immigration
Intergroup relations
International migration
Israelis
Jewish people
Jews
Learning
Methodology (Data Collection)
Migrants
Migration
Minority & ethnic groups
Noncitizens
Photography
Postcommunist societies
Qualitative analysis
Qualitative methods
Research Methodology
Researcher Subject Relations
Respondents
Social life & customs
Social research
Social sciences research
Sociology
USA
Vietnamese
Vietnamese language
Visual anthropology
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Summary:Drawing on the author’s research with three migrant populations—Jews from the former Soviet Union, Vietnamese, and Israelis—this article offers several suggestions for integrating photography into fieldwork studies. Visual methods are shown to be useful for learning about the research context, generating rapport with respondents, analyzing findings, and sharing research with students and colleagues. Examples show how photography contributed to the understanding of migrant communities, entrepreneurs’ use of coethnic and outgroup labor, and gender patterns.
ISSN:0002-7642
1552-3381
DOI:10.1177/0002764204266237