Challenges Facing African Immigrants in the Western Countries

Alternative Assignment for final 50% 20050 submission

Length: circa 15 pages

In place of the partner-based research activities of the Snapshot project, you are asked to complete a research proposal for a qualitative study on a topic arising from the migration-related discussions and materials covered in the lectures and the first BSA portfolio.

• Working from the research question you developed in the BSA project, refine or revise it as needed to serve as the question framing the proposed study;
• Find 5 journal articles – which must be directly related and relevant to your question
• Write a brief literature review that summarises this material so as to guide the development of your research design; this should include a 1 page introduction re: how you came to choose the topic, why it is important, followed by a 4-page review of the literature you’ve found; you may also use any of the material assigned or covered in the course.
• Your research design should include the following:
  1. 1 page overview explaining why qualitative methods are suited to your proposed study
  2. 1 page overview of who would participate, where the study would be located etc
  3. Explain how you would use documentary analysis in this study (2pgs)
  4. Explain how you would use interviews in this study (2pgs), plus a list of interview questions
  5. Explain how you would use EITHER visual OR ethnographic/participant observation methods (2 pgs)
  6. Explain how you would use EITHER participatory or programme evaluation methods (2pgs)

NOTE: you will need to use the assigned readings re: the methods listed in your overviews; and may also draw on the journal articles that provide accounts of how different methods were used. You may also combine some of these methods (ie., a participatory method that focuses on visual data activities), but you must clearly document how and why you’re using them in a way that responds to the requirements of your particular topic and qualitative methods as a whole.

Discuss the ethical issues involved in your study (2pgs)

Bibliography of all works used (these must be cited properly in the text according to the citation format of your choice.

Cover page with name, student number etc required.

NOTE: I will post some supplementary readings from first year re: a literature review etc.

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