Stigma presents specific ethical and epistemological problems for qualitative researchers of violence against women. Narrative research methods promise to enable ethical research on violence while still offering deep insight into stigmatized topics. This article describes narrative methods used in six focus group discussions and four in-depth interviews with victim-survivors of violence against women, all African migrant women living in Ireland. The article connects narrative and stigma in research with the social lives of participants. It concludes with specific recommendations for creative uses of narrative inquiry to explore stigmatized themes, noting that stigma can never be entirely removed from the research encounter.

污名为暴力侵害妇女行为的定性研究人员提出了具体的伦理和认识论问题。叙事研究方法有望实现对暴力的伦理研究，同时仍能深入洞察被污名化的话题。本文描述了六次焦点小组讨论和四次对暴力侵害妇女的受害者幸存者（所有生活在爱尔兰的非洲移民妇女）的深入访谈中使用的叙述方法。这篇文章将研究中的叙述和污名与参与者的社会生活联系起来。它最后提出了创造性地使用叙事探究来探索污名化主题的具体建议，并指出污名永远无法从研究遭遇中完全消除。