Naslov
Contemporary Challenges and Limitations of Surveying "Immigrants": A Scoping Study

Autori
Kuti, Simona ; Gregurović, Margareta ; Božić, Saša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 15.07.2019. - 19.07.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
immigrants, surveys, sampling, data collecting, research limitations, scoping study

Sažetak
Surveying immigrant populations represents a growing field within the social sciences. However, it includes various methodological challenges and potential limitations, from study design and sampling to data collecting and analysing. In order to discern different challenges researchers face, we shall undertake a scoping study – an approach to reviewing the literature following a methodological framework described by Arksey and O’Malley (2005). Our scoping study will include journal articles published within the SocIndex (EBSCO) bibliographic database. The database covers "the broad spectrum of sociological study", and contains a number of relevant journals from the field of migration studies. Since the database includes a substantial number of journal articles, we will limit our search to articles published in English in 2008 – 2018 period with full text access. The study will implement a five stage framework provided by Arksey and O’Malley (2005), namely identifying the research question, identifying relevant studies, selecting studies, charting the data and collating, summarizing and reporting the results. At the time of ESRA conference abstract submission, the search of SocIndex database for journal articles including keywords "survey" and "immigrants" in the selected period (2008 – 2018) included 1.091 articles. After initial study selection according to thematic relevance, we shall analyse the articles in order to detect issues referring to sampling methods and approaching the immigrant population, as well as to identify challenges and limitations of specific quantitative data collection modes. Therefore we will focus on research limitations identified and reported by the authors of relevant studies. The proposed scoping study aims to improve our understanding of various obstacles and challenges researchers encounter in surveying immigrant populations.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

POVEZANOST RADA