Pros And Cons Of Ethnic Matchinging

In spite of the controversy over the benefits of the quality of data, ethnic matching of the researcher with research attendants as a remedy for efficient research has been censured on ground which embraces its implicitly essentialist and homogenous view of ethnicity (Elam & Fenton, 2003). Ethnic matching may be proven deprivation in which participants hardly feel assured by the promise of confidentiality, or in which they prefer to express their different opinions such as the topic concerning religion or gender relations. The target and cons of matching the researchers and participants by ethnicity, language, and other characteristics need to be taken into account prudently, both in the data collection and throughout the research process (Grewal & Ritchie, 2006). There is a hazard that uncritical presumption that ethnic matching equals culturally competent research may distract the demand to improve the skills of researcher, in …show more content…
Edwards & Alexander (2010) had reported their works with the peers, community, and lay researchers that needed to address the tension between emancipation and democratization of knowledge production, and an instrumentalist drives to use the trust including the network of other collaborative researchers to access this less accessible communities (Vickers &Craig, 2012). Three case studies to show how the questions had been negotiated in the research were conducted by these three researchers. In the research with the migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, there have been the developments over this ethnic issue (Vickers &Craig,