Contents
Preface
Introduction
Anna Ochoa O'Leary, Colin Deeds, and Scott Whiteford
Part I: The Big Picture
1. Vulnerable Immigrant "Subjects": Definitions, Dilemmas, Disparate Power, and Desired Benefits
Jessie K. Finch and Celestino Fernández (UA)
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Border Research Collaboration
Kathleen Staudt (UTEP)
3. Ethical Dilemmas in Immigration Policy Research
Judith Gans (UA)
Part II: The Border as an Unstable Place
4. On Shifting Ground: Ethical and Methodological Conundrums of Ethnographic Border Research under Changing Security Paradigms and Policies
Rocío Magaña (Rutgers)
5. Methodological Challenges and Ethical Concerns of Researching Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Firsthand Experiences of Working with Undocumented Migrants.
Daniel E. Martínez, Jeremy Slack, and Prescott Vandervoet (UA)
6. Entre Los Mafiosos y La Chota: Ethnography, Drug trafficking and Policing in the South Texas-Mexico Borderlands
Santiago Guerra (UT- Austin)
7. Shaping Public Opinion on Migration in Mexico: The Challenges of Gathering and Proving Information for the National News Media
Manuel Chavez (Michigan State), Scott Whiteford (UA) and Silvia Nuñez (UNAM)
Part III: Fieldwork among Entrapped Communities
8. Researching Women's Vulnerability and Agency to Sexually Transmitted Diseases During Migration through Altar, Sonora: Methodological and Ethical Reflections
Katherine Careaga (COLSON)
9. Reflections on Methodological Challenges in a Study of Immigrant Women and Reproductive Health in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Anna Ochoa O'Leary (UA), Gloria Ciria Valdez Gardea (COLSON), and Azucena Sanchez (UA)
10. Women, migrants, undocumented business owners. Methodological strategies in field work with vulnerable populations
Erika Montoya (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa)
11. Research On Oppressed Communities
Pat Rubio Goldsmith (Texas A&M)
Part IV: A Fence on its Side is a Bridge
12. Methodological and ethical implications in the design and application of the Mexican Household Survey in Phoenix, Arizona (EHMPA 2007)
Blas Valenzuela Camacho (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa)
13. Lessons for Border Research: The Border Contraceptive Access Study
Jon Amastae, et al. (UTEP), Michele Shedlin (New York University), Kari White (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Kristine Hopkins (University of Texas at Austin), Daniel A. Grossman (Ibis Reproductive Health), and Joseph E. Potter (University of Texas at Austin)
14. Social Research and Reflective Practice in Bi-national Contexts: Learning from Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Jack Corbett (Portland State University) and Elsa Cruz Martínez (Secretaria de Salubridad, Mexico)
15. Conclusion