Searching for an Appropriate Research Strategy on Transnational Migration: The Logic of Multi-Sited Research and the Advantage of the Cultural Interferences Approach ; La búsqueda de una estrategia de investigación adecuada sobre la migración transnacional: La Lógica de la investigación multisituada y la ventaja del enfoque de interferencias culturales ; Zur Methodologie transnationaler Migration: Die Logik der multi-lokalen Ethnografie und die Stärke des kultursoziologischen Interferenzen-Ansatzes

Abstract

In analyzing current methodologies of transnational migration research, the article proposes to incorporate the cultural access into transnational methodology. Referring to the ideas of Andreas RECKWITZ, Ulf HANNERZ and Homi BHABHA it defines "culture" as a discursive and sense-making activity that guides respective social practices. This perspective allows defining transnational formations such as cross-border networks, families, organizations and diasporas as entities that are continuously confronted with interference of cultural orders. Moreover, the article develops a methodological proposal that facilitates research on actor's strategies, which deal with a variety of cultural scripts. First, this proposal suggests including the multi-sited ethnography in the procedure of data collection. This would enable to avoid methodological nationalism in designing transnational units of analysis. Second, the proposal suggests incorporating scientific hermeneutics within the procedure of data interpretation. In particular, it argues that scientific hermeneutics enables to observe the plurality of meaning patterns within actor's meaning horizons. Third, the methodological proposal suggests organizing the research work in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary organized scientific teams in order to increase the extent of research reflexivity. This modification provides a possibility to observe complex cultural dynamics and their effects on the cross-border social practices. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1001177 ; En el análisis de las metodologías actuales de la investigación en migración transnacional, el artículo propone la incorporación del acceso cultural dentro de la metodología transnacional. Refiriéndose a las ideas de Andreas RECKWITZ, Ulf HANNERZ y Homi BHABHA se define a la cultura como una actividad discursiva que hace sentido al guiar las respectivas prácticas sociales. Esta perspectiva permite definir las formaciones transnacionales como redes, familias, organizaciones que atraviesan fronteras y las diásporas como ...