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Nine tips for researching migrant worker communities (02 May 08)

Transient, and not always easy to identify – one of your trickiest problems


  1. Avoid using the phrase ‘migrant workers’ when trying to identify those from the Ascension 10 countries. Many of them feel that this has negative connotations due to recent media coverage
  2. Migrant workers don’t necessarily see themselves as part of the ‘Black and Minority Ethnic’ community so avoid suggesting that they are
  3. Identify potential research subj…

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Nine tips for researching migrant worker communities

Two research reports on a very difficult and under researched topic – East and Central European migrant workers







 

Nine tips for researching migrant worker communities

Two research reports on a very difficult and under researched topic – East and Central European migrant workers