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Conducting Digital Ethnography with Precarious Migrant Workers in a Pandemic

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If there is one thing that can characterize the ethnographic approach, it is that social intimacy rather than social distancing is crucial to the process. Although we were to minimize physical gatherings, meet in small groups, and remain at a distance from each other during the COVID-19 pandemic, what were the possibilities of conducting ethnography with populations facing precarious contexts during and beyond COVID-19?

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Qin-Liang, Y., Kaur-Gill, S., Hassan, S. (2023). Conducting Digital Ethnography with Precarious Migrant Workers in a Pandemic. In: Kaur-Gill, S., Dutta, M.J. (eds) Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic . Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7384-0_8

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