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Looking for Women in the Field: Epistemic Ignorance and the Process of Othering
Forum for Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 , DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1947365
Kathinka Fossum Evertsen 1
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Abstract

In this article, I ask how my challenges in the field can shed light on dynamics that contribute to excluding women as research participants in (climate) migration studies, and investigate the relationship between the absence of women as migrants in literature and challenges of accessing women in the field. Multiple studies have established that women – like men – migrate, and consequently have called for greater inclusion of women into international labour migration literature. Nevertheless, women still often disappear as research participants within this field. Through an investigation of literature I find that this is because women as migrants are Othered in academia. I build on this insight to investigate the dynamics that may also exclude women as research participants from other subfields of migration research, more specifically the field of ‘climate migration’. Next, I reflect on my unexpected challenges in accessing the information about women migrants in coastal Bangladesh. Men in the village, who were gatekeepers in my access to women, were not immediately willing to talk about women’s mobility. Rather, they tended to distance themselves from knowing these women, effectively turning migrant women into the ‘Other’. Bringing together insights about the Othering of migrant women in both academia and the field, I show how both contribute to upholding systems of epistemic ignorance. I argue that an awareness of such ignorance can be utilized as a tool in fieldwork by lending sensitivity to whom we include and exclude as knowers in our research.



中文翻译:

在该领域寻找女性:认知无知和他者的过程

摘要

在这篇文章中,我询问我在该领域的挑战如何阐明导致将女性排除在(气候)移民研究的研究参与者之外的动态,并调查文学中没有女性作为移民与接触女性的挑战之间的关系在该领域。多项研究表明,女性和男性一样会迁移,因此呼吁将女性更多地纳入国际劳务移民文献中。尽管如此,女性作为该领域的研究参与者仍然经常消失。通过对文献的调查,我发现这是因为作为移民的女性在学术界是异类的。我在此洞察力的基础上调查了也可能将女性作为研究参与者排除在移民研究的其他子领域的动态,更具体地说,是“气候迁移”领域。接下来,我反思了在获取有关孟加拉国沿海女性移民的信息时遇到的意想不到的挑战。村里的男人是我接触女性的看门人,他们不愿意立即谈论女性的流动性。相反,他们倾向于疏远了解这些女性,有效地将移民女性变成了“他者”。我汇集了学术界和该领域关于移民女性异化的见解,展示了两者如何有助于维护认知无知体系。我认为,对这种无知的认识可以用作田野调查的工具,方法是向我们在研究中作为知情者包括和排除的人提供敏感性。我反思了在获取有关孟加拉国沿海女性移民的信息时遇到的意想不到的挑战。村里的男人是我接触女性的看门人,他们不愿意立即谈论女性的流动性。相反,他们倾向于疏远了解这些女性,有效地将移民女性变成了“他者”。我汇集了学术界和该领域关于移民女性异化的见解,展示了两者如何有助于维护认知无知体系。我认为,对这种无知的认识可以用作田野调查的工具,方法是向我们在研究中作为知情者包括和排除的人提供敏感性。我反思了在获取有关孟加拉国沿海女性移民的信息时遇到的意想不到的挑战。村里的男人是我接触女性的看门人,他们不愿意立即谈论女性的流动性。相反,他们倾向于疏远了解这些女性,有效地将移民女性变成了“他者”。我汇集了学术界和该领域关于移民女性异化的见解,展示了两者如何有助于维护认知无知体系。我认为,对这种无知的认识可以用作田野调查的工具,方法是向我们在研究中作为知情者包括和排除的人提供敏感性。他们倾向于疏远了解这些女性,从而有效地将移民女性变成了“他者”。我汇集了学术界和该领域关于移民女性异化的见解,展示了两者如何有助于维护认知无知体系。我认为,对这种无知的认识可以用作田野调查的工具,方法是向我们在研究中作为知情者包括和排除的人提供敏感性。他们倾向于疏远了解这些女性,从而有效地将移民女性变成了“他者”。我汇集了学术界和该领域关于移民女性异化的见解,展示了两者如何有助于维护认知无知体系。我认为,对这种无知的认识可以用作田野调查的工具,方法是向我们在研究中作为知情者包括和排除的人提供敏感性。

更新日期:2021-07-01
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