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  title info:
    title: Research ethics as a process
    sub title: a qualitative study of foreign domestic workers and their employers in Hong Kong
  name:
    name part: Lee, Trevor Tsz-lok
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Emmerich, Nathan
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This case study relates to my experience of conducting a qualitative study of the employment relations between foreign domestic workers and their employers in Hong Kong. As part of my MPhil in 2004 and 2005, I conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with foreign domestic workers and their local Chinese employers. I also collected data through participant observation in the foreign domestic worker community. Worker-employer encounters are constituted by a series of interpersonal differences, including gender, class, ethnic, and national divides, and take place within a social space in which the private and public spheres interpenetrate. Studying how foreign domestic workers and their employers interact and negotiate with one another yielded three different but intertwined ethical questions arising during the inquiry process: The first concerns the micropolitics at work between foreign domestic workers, their employers, and myself, the researcher. They included what should, and should not, be done in the interests of building rapport with foreign domestic workers and their employers. The second question arose in light of the first: was it ethically acceptable--even if practically possible--to interview both employer and worker within the same household? Finally, how should participantś narratives be analyzed and represented in such a sensitive research context? Fully addressing these ethical concerns required me to go beyond standard suggestions about the ethics of research and adopt an iterative, reflexive approach that enabled me to adapt to the particular situational and relational challenges I encountered.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Trevor Tsz-lok Lee, Nathan Emmerich.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Household employees
    geographic: China
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Household employees
    topic: Research
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Quality of work life
    topic: Evaluation
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Employés de maison
    geographic: Chine
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Employés de maison
    topic: Recherche
    geographic: Chine
  subject:
    topic: Qualité de la vie au travail
    topic: Évaluation
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Household employees
  subject:
    topic: Quality of work life
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    geographic: China
  classification: HD8039.D52 C65 2019
  classification: 301.4444
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research Methods
      part name: Cases
  identifier: 9781526487001
  identifier: 1526487004
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 181217
    record change date: 20240923170103.5
    record identifier: in00005492531
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng