... their birth families. BBC English Romanian Adoptees ERA study language mother tongue life history interviews research participants care leavers leagans residential care human trafficking foster care foster carers small group homes domestic adoption intercountry adoption child trafficking...

...Conducting my fieldwork among religious menopausal women in Iran raised the question of the position of the researcher in life history research. This chapter set out to reflect on the shifting power dynamics in life history interviews and argues for the need to go beyond a focus on intersectional...

...This chapter provides a case study on migration, transnational kinship networks, and intergenerational wealth transmission among Caribbean elders in the UK. It provides life history accounts of Caribbean elders engaging in complex financial exchanges with kinship networks in countries of both...

...This chapter uses an ethnographic and life history approach to highlight how the choices of lone parents are shaped by the interaction between social policies, labour markets, and family structures; their assessment of labour market and training opportunities; and the social support networks...

... or visual. Narrative approaches are not allied to any one set of methods of data collection or analysis. Meanwhile, life history methods are guided by the aim to elicit life course transitions, their ordering, and their relationship to historical processes, social structure, and social institutions...

... by a critical engagement with biographical narratives generated from life-history interviews with people from three generational cohorts, who experienced childhood and the transition to adulthood in different historical times. The method of analysis sought to engage with these narratives as a stimulus to pose...

...This chapter illustrates how people use their life history to articulate meaningful accounts of difficulties within the current care relationship. It begins with a discussion of the function of talk about the past in people's accounts. A summary of each care dyad is then presented, indicating...

... terms, the focus of this chapter is on oral history, life history and narrative approaches. Discussion in this chapter includes: the rise of biographical methods in health; the contribution of biographical methods in health; inherent tensions in the usage of biographical methods in health studies...

...This chapter examines the benefits and limitations of using biographical narratives, and more specifically, life histories, to analyse the relationship between place and life course development. The author argues that biographical narratives, in privileging time at the expense of space...

...This chapter illustrates that using a life history approach is significant within transnational ethnography to examine the mobile lives of immigrants. I draw on a project that examined the life paths of the 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders. The returnees’ narratives were traced back through...

...This chapter examines methodological considerations, focusing on ethical issues and the challenges of studying North Korean women defectors and their human rights issues. It applies a critical feminist approach. The chapter begins with a phenomenological method, linking to the life history...

... intersectionality life history approach longitudinal methods boundary-crossing Let us start with a couple of examples of SCOs and SCMs. Members of the Coalition of Labour Union Women (CLUW), an organisation that was founded in Chicago 1974 and which bridges the US women’s and labour movements ( Roth, 2003...