Ethical Dimensions of Shared Ethnicity, Language, and Immigration Experience

Autor/in	Victoria, Mabelle P.
Titel	Ethical Dimensions of Shared Ethnicity, Language, and Immigration Experience
Quelle	In: TESL Canada Journal, 28 (2011) 5, S.72-79 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0826-435X
Schlagwörter	Intimacy; Immigration; Ethics; Ethnicity; Immigrants; Native Language; Ethnography; Researchers; Decision Making; Role Conflict; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Tagalog; Counselors; Employment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Intimität; Ethik; Ethnizität; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Ethnografie; Researcher; Forscher; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Rollenkonflikt; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Counselor; Counsellor; Counsellors; Berater; Dienstverhältnis
Abstract	In this article I illustrate how some commonalities that I share with my participants--ethnic background, native language, and immigration experience--create unexpected ethical concerns. I explore how these commonalities facilitate the establishment of rapid intimacy, at the same time creating the temptations of over-identification and blurring the boundaries between researcher and participants. Drawing on three episodes from my ethnographic field work, I demonstrate how the mundane and taken-for-granted encounters with informants (used synonymously with participants) reveal the seeds of ethical dilemmas when put under the powerful and critical lens of reflexivity. Instead of viewing ethics as adherence to a set of codes, I explore reflexivity as ethical practice. Researchers continually make on-the-fly decisions in the field and take corresponding actions without the luxury of careful forethought. I argue that such decisions need to be unpacked after the event to examine if they carry ethical implications with them. (As Provided).
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