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This chapter analyses the methodological considerations taken into account in our study. Specifically transnational multisited longitudinal research is taken into account as an underexplored approach in migration studies. This relates to repeating ethnographic visits to the sites and repeated in-depth interviews with information-rich individuals both in the UK and in Poland, filtered and selected from a wider set of interviews with local observants, return migrants and circulating migrants. The qualitative panel helped us to position social remittances in relation to time and space. Only through time were we able to discern the different stages and modes of social remitting and the roles of individuals in this process.
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Lazarsfeld (1993) was the pioneer and promoter of panel studies in social research.
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http://www.timescapes.leeds.ac.uk/ (accessed 25 November 2015).
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Grabowska, I., Garapich, M.P., Jaźwińska, E., Radziwinowiczówna, A. (2017). Transnational Multisited Qualitative Longitudinal Research in Investigating Social Remittances and Change. In: Migrants as Agents of Change. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59066-4_3
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