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Call for Contributions Edited Volume for Studia Fennica Ethnologica Where is the field? Exploring labor and migration studies through the lenses of fieldwork Editors Hanna Snellman & Laura Hirvi Publisher: The Finnish Literature Society Ethnologists seek to achieve a better understanding of the human experience through the exploration of different kinds of life worlds. The examination of work has played a prominent role in this tradition, and the anthropological turn in ethnology was many times first tested in labor studies. Ethnologists studied also immigrant groups at an early stage in countries where they were big in number. Increasingly, ethnologists have been focusing on the experience of migration and labor migration together, because both create a life world that has a significant impact on the lives of individuals and communities and the way they fashion their identities. These studies are mostly based on thick and rich data, collected through ethnographic fieldwork. But what exactly does the method of ethnographic fieldwork entail? And how does a researcher find, define, access or exit the field when examining workers and immigrants? It is our contention that reflecting on these questions is of uttermost importance for enhancing the method of ethnographic fieldwork. In the edited volume for the Studia Fennica Ethnologica series, we will turn our focus on scrutinizing the methods of fieldwork as used in the study of immigrants, workers and a combination of both. We invite researchers to submit articles that examine the experience of labor, migration or labor migration while critically reflecting on their ethnographic fieldwork experience. Articles reflecting on changing fieldwork approaches in ethnology or dealing with an historical approach are especially welcomed. By pointing out how fieldworkers respond to possible challenges, obstacles and opportunities faced during fieldwork, we hope to collect innovative approaches that can be used for an elaboration of this method that is so essential for ethnology. This edited volume will be published in Fall 2011. Those interested in contributing to this volume should submit an abstracts with 300 words by February 1st, 2010. Please sent the abstract to: laura.j.hirvi@jyu.fi. Those scholars chosen to contribute to this volume should submit the first draft of their article November 1st 2010. The length of the article submitted to this volume should not exceed 10,000 words. For further inquiries, please contact: Hanna Snellman, Professor of Ethnology, Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, hanna.k.snellman@jyu.fi or Laura Hirvi, MA, PhD student, Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, 09/2009-06/2010 Visiting Fulbright Student at UC Santa Barbara, Department of Religious Studies laura.j.hirvi@jyu.fi
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