The Ethics of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Context of War against Migrants : Between Self-Censorship and Engagement
(2016) Anthropologie & développement — n° 44, p. 55-78 (2016)
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- Drawing on my fieldwork with migrants who have been designated “illegal” in the Maltese islands, I will discuss the contextual framework of the “war against migrants” and ethical issues resulting from it. Framing the investigative context as a latent or open war waged against migrants most notably leads me to revisit the following debates. First, the need for a longitudinal analysis of the entangled links between public policies on migration and their effects on migrants, which would also include an analysis of the researcher and fieldwork conditions. Secondly, the question of how this increasingly explicit and violent context of border militarization challenges ethnographic writing. I particularly address issues relative to public anthropology and accusations of being non-scientific due to militancy, as well as those surrounding adequate forms of writing and self-censorship. Haut de page
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Mazzocchetti, J. (2016). The Ethics of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Context of War against Migrants : Between Self-Censorship and Engagement. Anthropologie & développement, 44, 55-78. https://doi.org/10.4000/anthropodev.437 (Original work published 2016)