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Oppression and Desire Oppression and Desire
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Multiple Truths Multiple Truths
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The Beginning: July 2010 The Beginning: July 2010
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Being in the World Being in the World
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Thirty Pairs of Tiny Shoes Thirty Pairs of Tiny Shoes
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Field Methods Field Methods
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Hope and Melinda’s Place Hope and Melinda’s Place
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2 Ethnography and Everyday Life
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Published:March 2014
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This chapter describes my approach to ethnographic research and writing, including the importance of “stories” and my evolving relationships with mothers and babies. It describes my first eye-opening meeting with a group of migrant mothers and their babies, and it illustrates how my relationships with them unfolded over the course of two years. It also points to the challenges of research that combines public anthropology—with its critical policy implications—with concerns that I call “micro-feminist-ethnographer-activism.” As a scholar-activist, I am keenly attuned to the exploitative conditions of work and migrant life but also attentive to the creative ways in which people make lives and find ways to survive despite the odds. As a humanist anthropologist, my goal is to convey the experiences of migrant workers as living, breathing human beings—not simply as victims. This is not to glorify their existence but to acknowledge their strength and resilience, while also pointing to where “the system” has failed them.
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