Practicing ethnography in migration-related detention centers: A reflexive account. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Esposito, Francesca
• Is Part Of: Journal of prevention & intervention in the community. Volume 45:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 57
• Page End: 69
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Ethnography -- migration-related detention -- power relationships -- reflexivity -- storytelling; Preventive health services -- Periodicals; Preventive health services -- United States -- Periodicals; Community health services -- Periodicals; Community health services -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.1
• DOI: 10.1080/10852352.2016.1197742
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1085-2352

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Feminist scholars, as well as community psychologists, have advocated the role of reflexive engagement in the research process in order to challenge power relations. Moreover, the liberating potential of storytelling, especially when working with issues of diversity and marginalization, has been stressed. The purpose of this article is to reflect on an ethnographic work underway in the Identification and Expulsion Center-CIE of Ponte Galeria, Rome. How the researcher's identities, values, and experiences, alongside power and privilege, have influenced her positioning in the research setting and the relationships formed with the different setting members is the subject of discussion. In sharing the story of this work, the final intent is to contribute to the joint effort to foster a reflexive community psychology practice incorporating feminist goals and a dialogue about ethnography in community psychology.