The Migrant Ethnographer: When the Field Becomes Home

IF 0.2 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography Pub Date : 2019-10-22 DOI:10.1108/s1047-004220190000016014

J. Farrer

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Abstract

For migrant urban ethnographers who study their city of settlement, ethnography may have a double meaning, serving not only as an approach to understanding a city academically but also a pathway to connecting with a community more broadly and personally, a type of personal place making. This chapter uses the experiences of the author – an American working and living in Shanghai and Tokyo for over 20 years – to show how his evolving practice of the ethnography of the city relates to a slow process of coming to live purposefully in it. The chapter also details a migrant’s perspective on the ethnography of sexuality, nightlife and foodways in urban Asia. The insider-outsider relationship that the migrant ethnographer brings to the city may be viewed as both burden and asset. As transnational migrants, migrant ethnographers can perform as institutional mediaries who connect researchers across borders and as educational facilitators who help migrant students discover means of associating with an unfamiliar environment. In short, ethnography may be a way of living as well as learning.

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移民人种学家:当田野变成家

对于研究定居城市的移民城市民族志学者来说，民族志可能有双重含义，它不仅是一种在学术上理解城市的方法，也是一种更广泛、更个人地与社区联系的途径，一种个人的地方制造。这一章用作者的经历——一个在上海和东京工作和生活了20多年的美国人——来展示他对城市民族志的不断发展的实践是如何与一个缓慢的有目的的生活过程联系起来的。本章还详细介绍了一个移民对亚洲城市的性、夜生活和饮食方式的民族志的看法。移民人种学家给城市带来的局内人与局外人的关系可能被视为负担和财富。作为跨国移民，移民民族志学家可以作为跨国界研究人员的机构中介，也可以作为教育促进者，帮助移民学生发现与陌生环境联系的方法。简而言之，民族志可能是一种生活方式，也是一种学习方式。

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Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography ANTHROPOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Proposed by Italo Pardo, Urbanities was founded in 2011 by a group of anthropologists and sociologists under the chair of Giuliana B. Prato and is edited by a Social Anthropologist ─ Italo Pardo ─ and a Sociologist ─ Jerome Krase. Urbanities has established a partnership with the International Urban Symposium (IUS) and the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA). The journal’s scope is to provide a forum for debate on issues of scientific and public interest worldwide. It aims at providing the scientific community and the general public with up-to-date news on urban research and its relevance in understanding the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental changes of today’s world. Urbanities is an open-access international peer-reviewed academic journal. The Editorial and Scientific Boards reflect the journal’s aims and broad ethnographic spread, and include international scholars of high calibre who specialize in different ethnographic, theoretical and disciplinary fields. Urbanities aims at publishing original articles by established and younger scholars, at exploring new trends and debates in Urban Ethnography that promote critical scholarship and at highlighting the contribution of urban research to the broader society. Committed to promoting cross-disciplinary debate, Urbanities welcomes contributions on research at the forefront of disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, including Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, History, Political Sciences, Economics, Architecture, Archaeology. Articles published in the journal are ethnographically based and address theoretical, methodological or public issues concerning all aspects of urban research.