Setting up research

This progress report is for the Budapest research site of Work Package 5 (WP5).  WP5 will investigate modes of migrant performances and enactments of citizenship in Budapest.  Fieldwork research will begin in September 2008.

There are two deliverables in the form of written reports due this year for WP5, both are relevant for the Budapest site of research but only one is to be written by the supervising researcher of the Budapest site.  The other deliverable will be discussed in the other progress report of WP5.  This report focuses on the second deliverable and on progress made in… Read more >

Setting up research

The first three months (January – March) were dedicated to the refinement of the conceptual framework and the concomitant research steps, which also included the operationalization of the basic concepts and the choice of research locations in Germany. The focus of this endavour during this period was on the concepts of “acts” (different from practices” and actions”), “scales” and “sites” of citizenship in general. The detailed guidelines provided by the Open University facilitated this process and kept it in tune with the other workpackages. The product of this stage was presented at the inaugural Workshop on 16-18 April in Milton… Read more >