Editorial: Biographical Methods in Migration Research

Theodoros Iosifides () and Deborah Sporton ()
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Theodoros Iosifides: University of Sheffield,Department of Geography, UK.
Deborah Sporton: University of the Aegean, Department of Geography, Greece.

Migration Letters, 2009, vol. 6, issue 2, 101-108

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).

Keywords: Biographical methods; research practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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