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Ethical Issues in Research with Immigrants and Refugees

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Introduction

Migration has been construed as:

The physical transition of an individual or a group from one society to another. This transition usually involves abandoning one social setting and entering a different one (Eisenstadt, 1955, p. 1)

A relatively permanent moving away of … migrants, from one geographical location to another, preceded by decision-making on the part of the migrants on the basis of a hierarchically ordered set of values or valued ends and resulting in changes in the interactional set of migrants (Mangalam, 1968, p. 8)

A permanent or semipermanent change of residence (Lee, 1966, p. 49)

The process of social change whereby an individual moves from one cultural setting to another for the purpose of settling down either permanently or for a prolonged period (Bhugra & Jones, 2001, p. 216).

These varied constructions indicate that the concept of migration encompasses both movement within and across national borders. This includes both internal migrants, such as...

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Loue, S. (2012). Ethical Issues in Research with Immigrants and Refugees. In: Loue, S., Sajatovic, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5659-0_8

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