This paper describes distinctive ethical challenges encountered in qualitative research with migrant children. It brings attention to how the exploratory nature of qualitative research, intersected with the multifaced realities of migrant children, shapes stances towards these ethical challenges.,The paper is developed through conceptual and reflective contributions. It narrates distinctiveness within ethical challenges via the literature. It then illustrates these, through the author's experiences of negotiating such tensions on a project with a category of migrant children, namely, separated children.,Ethical choices are made throughout the research processes. These choices need to be matched to distinctive childhood and migration intersections, and methodological frameworks must reflect these, including when applied to standardised ethical guidelines. Transparency, reflexivity and positionality influence these choices, and researchers have enhanced responsibility to minimise harm in how they research migrant children.,Findings relate to work in development, where sensitivities regarding research conduct are still present. The scope is therefore on particular challenges of dealing with ethical codes and practices. The intention of the author is for this to be a reflective discussion producing paper, but not a practice guide.,Its value is centred on taking generalised ethical challenges in qualitative work with children and systematically contextualising these regarding factors specific to migrant children, arguing that the way which migrant children are represented is in itself a key ethical challenge. It further contributes to the body of knowledge by describing procedures of a qualitative study which address some of this distinctiveness.

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流动儿童定性研究中的独特伦理挑战

本文描述了在对流动儿童进行定性研究时遇到的独特的道德挑战。它引起人们注意，定性研究的探索性与移民儿童的多方面现实相交，如何形成应对这些伦理挑战的立场。它通过文献叙述了在道德挑战中的独特性。然后，通过作者在与移民儿童（即失散儿童）类别的项目中就这种紧张关系进行谈判的经验，来说明这些问题。在整个研究过程中都做出了道德选择。这些选择必须与童年和移民的独特交汇点相匹配，方法框架必须反映这些，包括应用于标准化的道德准则时。透明性，自反性和位置性会影响这些选择，并且研究人员在减少对移民儿童的研究方式方面承担了更大的责任。研究结果涉及发展中的工作，而有关研究行为的敏感性仍然存在。因此，范围涉及处理道德规范和实践的特定挑战。作者的意图是将其作为反思性的讨论性论文，而不是实践指南。它的价值在于，在对儿童进行定性工作时应对普遍的道德挑战，并针对移民儿童特有的因素有系统地将这些背景化，代表移徙儿童的方式本身就是一个重要的道德挑战。