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Border Research Ethics and Methodologies (BREM)
Conference Announcement -- Call for Papers
Between the Lines:
Border Research Ethics and Methods
April 23, 2010
University of Arizona, Tucson
Call for Papers
The purpose of this conference is to bring together binational researchers and students from a variety of disciplines and interests who will focus on methodological and ethical issues inherent in border research, which today increasingly consider dilemmas while researching in and among the various communities impacted by immigration enforcement and emerging enforcement technologies. Such dilemmas also arise from how research goals are defined and the role of science in achieving them. Progressively more, researchers wrestle with issues of “ownership” of data, its use and management, institutional constraints formulated by the conventions of science and the academy (including human subjects protection guidelines), and practical concerns about how knowledge is applied.
Sponsored by the University of Arizona's Binational Migration Institute (at the Department of Mexican American and Raza Studies) The Office of Western Hemispheric Programs and The Center for Latin American Studies.
Project Abstract
At the core of research are methodological considerations. These are complicated when addressing the problems of “vulnerable” populations constituted by poverty, immigration, clandestine activity, and border enforcement. Interdisciplinary or collaborative research also pose challenges insofar that some methods and instruments are increasingly driven by emergent technologies. In this way, it is incumbent on researchers to monitor and assure that questions of methods and instruments to keep pace with emerging research environments and to accurately inform policy.Resumen del Proyecto
En base de la investigación hay consideraciones metodológicas. Éstas son complicadas al contemplar y emprender los problemas de las poblaciones ?vulnerables? constituidas por la pobreza, la inmigración, la actividad clandestina, y la tensión de la frontera. La investigación interdisciplinaria o de colaboración también plantea desafíos en la manera en que algunos métodos e instrumentos son conducidos cada vez más por tecnologías avanzadas y inesperadas. De esta manera, es primordial para los investigadores supervisar y asegurar que las cuestiones de los métodos y de los instrumentos guarden paso con los ambientes de investigaciones salientes y para avisar la política indispensablemente.Committee Members:
Dr. Raquel Rubio Goldsmith
Dr. Scott Whiteford
Colin Deeds