Hearing Lost Voices: Issues in Researching 'Hidden' Minority Ethnic Communities
Hearing Lost Voices: Issues in Researching 'Hidden' Minority Ethnic Communities
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听到失去的声音：研究“隐藏”少数民族社区的问题
DOI：
10.1093/bjc/azi078
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
N. Chakraborti
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文献类型：
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作者：
Jon Garland;B. Spalek;N. Chakraborti
本文讨论了犯罪学家在调查少数民族家庭的经验时所面临的关键方法和伦理困境。本文认为，通过采用广泛的种族类别，如“黑人”或“亚洲”，审查或讨论少数民族群体时，法定机构可以掩盖这些不同的“隐藏”的社区，这些伞分类下所包含的具体问题。假设“白色”条件是事件的“正常”版本的倾向与“难以接触”的少数民族群体的经历有关。研究人员的主观性的复杂性进行检查，特别是导致误导性的假设“隐藏”的人口的过程。只有了解研究这些群体的政治复杂性及其社区的性质，研究人员才能准确评估他们的具体问题。
This article addresses key methodological and ethical dilemmas faced by criminologists when investigating the experiences of minority ethnic households. The paper argues that by employing broad ethnic categories, such as 'Black' or 'Asian', when examining or discussing minority ethnic groups, statutory agencies can mask the specific concerns of those diverse 'hidden' communities that are subsumed under such umbrella classifications. The propensity to assume that the 'white' condition is the 'normal' version of events is linked to the othering of the experiences of 'hard-to-reach' minority ethnic groups. The complexities of researcher subjectivities are examined and specifically the processes that lead to misleading assumptions about 'hidden' populations. Only by developing an understanding of the political complexities of researching such groups, and of the nature of their communities, can researchers accurately assess their specific problems.