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The heroines of their own stories: Insights from the use of life history drawings in research with a transnational migrant community.
- Source :
- Global Public Health; May-Jul2016, Vol. 11 Issue 5/6, p762-782, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- In this paper, we discuss how life history drawings can serve as a valuable method for global health research. The introduction discusses qualitative approaches to concepts such as reliability, validity and triangulation, and situates the use of participatory visual methods within the broader field of participatory research. The paper reports on an experience using life history drawings as part of extended ethnographic research in rural Mexico and among Mexican migrants living in Atlanta. The primary method for that parent project was comparative ethnographic research, which included life histories collected from 13 pairs of women over 15 months of participant observation. Early in the research, the drawings contributed to a major reorientation in the direction of the research project. The insights generated through analysis of the life history drawings exemplify how this participatory research technique can direct attention to social processes that feel salient to community members. In this case, they called attention to the enormity of social change in this community over one generation, reorienting the study from one focused on change causes by migration to one that focused on two trajectories of change: generational and migration-related. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACTION research
COMMUNITIES
COMPARATIVE studies
DRAWING
EXPERIENCE
FOCUS groups
PSYCHOLOGY of immigrants
INTERGENERATIONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
HUMAN life cycle
RESEARCH methodology
MUSIC
PARTICIPANT observation
PHOTOGRAPHY
RELIABILITY (Personality trait)
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH funding
SOCIAL change
VIDEO recording
WOMEN
ETHNOLOGY research
QUALITATIVE research
JUDGMENT sampling
CONTENT mining
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17441692
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 5/6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Global Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116264775
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2016.1168862