In order to understand migrants’ survival strategies, migration trajectories and transnational political practices I study migrants’ personal networks. In doing so I try to move beyond the use of metaphors and collect personal social network data, visualize “snapshots” of migrants’ social ties and match the evidence collected among migrants with the data obtained from their network members in the countries of origin. In many ways ethical dilemmas of researches appear to be lined to questions of methodology and theory. This seminar will focus on the key ethical issues in collecting, analysing and reporting data that arise from studying migrants’ personal social networks in more than one cultural, social and political contexts. The discussion will be based on my experience in researching transit migration among sub-Saharan Africans in Ukraine and political mobilization of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic during the on-going crisis in Ukraine. rnrnNataliia Gladkova is a PhD Candidate at Maastricht University and ERSTE Foundation Fellow. She received a MA degree in European Studies from Maastricht University in the Netherlands a MA degree in International Relations from Kyiv International University in Ukraine. Before pursuing an academic career, she worked for international organizations in the field of international migration (UNHCR, IOM) and at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Ukraine. rnrnPřednáška je součástí řešení grantu Husovy nadace „Mapování kulturních válek v postkomunistickém regionu: kulturní analýza hodnotových střetů v občanské sféře“.
