La ética relacional de seguridad cultural, derechos y deseo: reflexiones acerca de la realización de investigación con la participación de la comunidad en el caso de familias migrantes en Indonesia

Jessica Ball; Harriot Beazley

doi:10.14422/mig.i42.y2017.006

Authors

Jessica Ball University of Victoria, School of Child and Youth Care
Harriot Beazley Human Geography, University of the Sunshine Coast

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14422/mig.i42.y2017.006

Keywords:

community engagement, cultural safety, relational ethics, rights-based research, transnational migrants

Abstract

A study of birth registration decision making by Indonesian parents involved in transnational migration is discussed with reference to the authors’ long-standing use of an approach centred on the relational ethics of cultural safety, rights, and desire in community-engaged research. Ethical dilemmas encountered in obtaining informed consent and conducting the research, resulting from social hierarchies, social protocols, and socio-emotional considerations, illustrated limited, often mismatched perspectives on consent, privacy, and protection on the parts of research gatekeepers in minority and majority contexts. The article discusses “in-the-moment” adaptations to planned data collection procedures. These adaptations were guided by relational ethics aimed at ensuring, not only meaningful data, but consent, authenticity, socioemotional and cultural safety, a legacy of good relations with village leaders, and beneficial outcomes for community members.

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