Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in London
Although there is growing interest in qualitative longitudinal research as a way of taking time seriously (ADAM, 2000), this approach still holds many challenges for the social researcher. In this article we use a reflexive approach, drawing on a Goffmanian analysis of self-presentation, to consider...
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| description | Although there is growing interest in qualitative longitudinal research as a way of taking time seriously (ADAM, 2000), this approach still holds many challenges for the social researcher. In this article we use a reflexive approach, drawing on a Goffmanian analysis of self-presentation, to consider our separate but related experience of re-interviewing Polish migrants over intervals of several years. In each case, the repeat interviews were not part of the original research design and were undertaken years later for a range of different reasons. After briefly presenting case studies from our individual interviews, we critically reflect upon some opportunities and challenges of researching change through time. We first consider the ways in which repeat interviews may challenge earlier analyses and findings. We then explore some of the ethical considerations involved in unplanned repeat interviews. Next, we reflect upon dilemmas about self-revelation, particularly in contexts of social media and on-line technologies. Finally, we discuss what we have learned from our different experiences and what implications there are for this kind of ad hoc longitudinal research in migration studies.
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| spelling | doaj.art-4a0e3335f5564fcfaae5a537908943bd2022-12-21T19:50:43ZdeuFQSForum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272016-05-011721801Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in LondonLouise Ryan0Magdalena Lopez RodriguezPaulina Trevena1Middlesex UniversityUniversity of GlasgowAlthough there is growing interest in qualitative longitudinal research as a way of taking time seriously (ADAM, 2000), this approach still holds many challenges for the social researcher. In this article we use a reflexive approach, drawing on a Goffmanian analysis of self-presentation, to consider our separate but related experience of re-interviewing Polish migrants over intervals of several years. In each case, the repeat interviews were not part of the original research design and were undertaken years later for a range of different reasons. After briefly presenting case studies from our individual interviews, we critically reflect upon some opportunities and challenges of researching change through time. We first consider the ways in which repeat interviews may challenge earlier analyses and findings. We then explore some of the ethical considerations involved in unplanned repeat interviews. Next, we reflect upon dilemmas about self-revelation, particularly in contexts of social media and on-line technologies. Finally, we discuss what we have learned from our different experiences and what implications there are for this kind of ad hoc longitudinal research in migration studies. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1602266http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2530unplanned repeat interviewsreflexivitypresenting the selfmigration research |
| spellingShingle | Louise Ryan Magdalena Lopez Rodriguez Paulina Trevena Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in London Forum: Qualitative Social Research unplanned repeat interviews reflexivity presenting the self migration research |
| title | Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in London |
| title_full | Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in London |
| title_fullStr | Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in London |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in London |
| title_short | Opportunities and Challenges of Unplanned Follow-up Interviews: Experiences with Polish Migrants in London |
| title_sort | opportunities and challenges of unplanned follow up interviews experiences with polish migrants in london |
| topic | unplanned repeat interviews reflexivity presenting the self migration research |
| url | http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2530 |
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