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Mothers in Transition: Using Images to Understand the Experience of Migrant Mothers in Shanghai

Author : Mimi V. Chapman, Meihua Zhu, Shiyou Wu | 2013
Published By: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society for Social Work and Research

In-country migration is changing the face of China’s urban areas. As individuals and families move from the countryside to the cities, parents and children must adapt to new expectations and challenges. Most research on immigration examines data from large surveys that describe trends or characteristics of the migrant population. Little research includes individual migrants telling their own stories in their own way. Using an adaptation of Photovoice, a participatory research method, this paper asked migrant mothers in Shanghai to take photographs of their daily lives and use those images in group discussion to describe their parenting experiences. In addition, the research team independently coded the photographs to identify themes not included in the mothers’ initial discussion. Researcher-derived codes were member checked before including the results in this article. The article also presents results of a key stakeholder forum during which the migrant mothers presented their pictures and stories to decision makers.

URL : http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5243/jsswr.2013.16?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=migration&searchText=ethics&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicResults%3FQuery%3Dmigration%2Bethics%26amp%3Bwc%3D

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