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Communicative Possibilities: Reflections on the Ethnographic Interview

In social scientific projects, methodology and ethics are inextricably linked. In this blog post, I explore how the ethnographic interview contains possibilities for both connection and rupture with interlocutors via reflecting on my own fieldwork.

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The Shifting Meanings of “(Il)Legality”: Indonesian Migrant Workers in the Netherlands

How do migrants become ‘illegal’? How does their ‘illegality’ affect their position in the receiving countries? Ratna Saptari discusses the experiences of Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and how they try to obtain recognition amidst shifting positions of (il)legality.