Researchers of the “in-between” - social workers in the role of researchers: proximity and distance of an interpretative ethnography

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  • Somnoma Valerie Ouedraogo Université d’Ottawa

Keywords:

ethnography, researchers of “in-between”, researchers-practitioners

Abstract

This article focuses on the reflections of a fieldwork conducted in Burkina Faso as part of a doctoral study that focused on the forced return of Burkinabè migrant workers. It speaks to both researchers ‘in-between’ and researchers in social work who find themselves caught wearing hats sometimes in tension as practitioners, researchers and none the less as fieldworkers who belong to the studied society. The purpose of this article to that effect tightens around the two points that means the positions of researchers “in-between” and social workers placed in the role of researcher during interactions in field.

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Author Biography

Somnoma Valerie Ouedraogo, Université d’Ottawa

Professeure à la leçon, École de Service Social, Université d'Ottawa

Published

2014-12-28

How to Cite

OUEDRAOGO, S. V. Researchers of the “in-between” - social workers in the role of researchers: proximity and distance of an interpretative ethnography. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 26, n. 3, p. 765-784, 28 Dec. 2014.

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