Understanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Migrants: Practical Approaches and Effective Research Methodologies

This book provides readers with practical, culturally aware and engaging ways to research migrant culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Through the diverse disciplinary perspectives of Communication Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Education, Business, and Data Science, the case studies documented in this book offer readers effective methodologies leading to deep and nuanced knowledge of CALD migrants and the communities they belong to. This book looks at research design, including insider-outsider perspectives, recruitment, data collection (ethnographic, individual, and focus group interviews, non-intrusive observations, artifacts, quantitative, data scraping, online, face-to-face and so on), data analysis, conceptual and theoretical frameworks, communication of research and research translation. It describes and reflects on appropriate methodologies for CALD migrant people. With its rich, insightful, and practical examples, this book is a necessary reference for anyone researching the lived experience of migrants in multicultural settings.