Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Migration Histories

Book chapter

Carling, Jørgen (2012) Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Migration Histories, in Handbook of Research Methods in Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (137–162).

Book description on e-elgar.com

This chapter addresses the collection, analysis and presentation of migration histories across different methodological approaches. The emphasis will be on the first of these steps: collecting information. However, I will show how information can be collected in different ways for different analytical purposes, and indicate how more specialized analysis might follow. Three forms of data collection will be addressed: conventional interviews, life history calendars and migration history charts. The presentation of migration histories in publications obviously depends on the analytical approach. What I will do here is to show how detailed family migration histories can be displayed and used as a complement to text, using either the migration history chart or the so-called Lexis diagram.

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