Pub Date : 2023-06-24DOI: 10.1177/14733250231186755
So’Phelia Morrow
In July 2020, rapper Megan Thee Stallion was shot by her then boyfriend Tory Lanez, a fellow rapper. The incident brought to the surface (again) a long, ongoing conversation about the experiences of Black women survivors of intimate partner violence, much like other high-profile cases (e.g., Tina Turner) have done before. Specifically, these cases show how Black men particularly can uphold patriarchal violence in intimate or romantic contexts. Moreover, these cases show the tensions that can arise when survivors seek help from law enforcement. For example, the idea of racial loyalty and not calling the police on a Black man and how this affects the options available to Black women. In other words, Black women often have nowhere to turn for help when they experience violence. In this article, I employ Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to analyze a personal instance of road rage where I was attacked, to explore how Black women survivors make meaning of their experiences, the thought process behind their decision to involve the police, how Black men uphold patriarchal violence in non-intimate contexts, and how Black women resist or refuse to accept the violence. This analysis reveals the raced and gendered components underlying the private/public nature of interpersonal violence experienced by Black women and the relationship between intimate and non-intimate interpersonal violence. Implications for qualitative social work research and practice include the use of Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to identify areas of empowerment, strength, and support for survivors of violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1177/14733250231185066
Siân E. Lucas, Laura Bellussi
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many face-to-face group activities for new parents moved online. In this article, we share findings from 14 interviews conducted during the first lockdown in the United Kingdom with parents of babies under 12 months about their experiences of participating in online groups. Attendance at groups was treated as a survival mechanism or even a panacea for some parents, providing well-rounded entertainment and support for parents, their children and the parenting relationship. However, reviews of the online groups were mixed, with some deemed more adequate than others for online delivery. Parents expressed concerns about the lack of informal spaces in online contexts to share private conversations and the unnatural group conversations affected by the custom of taking turns to talk. These experiences highlighted what was important to parents: the need for the embodiment of connection. The peculiarity of the online setting saw the emergence of parenting display work; parental awareness of online impression management and self-presentation strategies. While online technologies are ubiquitous, online groups for parents are nascent, and these technologies require careful analysis and evaluation from users and facilitators.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/14733250231183294
Lissette M. Piedra
The most resonant aspect of qualitative inquiry for me has always been its utter humanness—messy and context-driven. Moral judgment of right and wrong disappears; insight prevails. When done well, qualitative methods transcend our limited, biased understandings and generate profound insights on the human condition unobtainable through other approaches. Among such processes, reflexive attention to one’s social position is foundational for a qualitative study, but while we recognize it as important, we tend not to think of such attention as an analytic tool. Arguably, for the astute qualitative researcher, the heart of Dunbar, Rodriguez, and Parker’s direction depends on acknowledging and—to use Forrest Stuart’s term—embracing our positionality (Stuart, 2017). In this essay, I revisit the concept of positionality—that of the researcher and the participants—and how it can be leveraged to reveal aspects of the lived experience that might otherwise remain hidden, a process which includes accepting the transgressive role of researcher (Stuart, 2017) and actively searching for information that disconfirms working theories and hypotheses (Gilgun, 2006, 2015). In doing so, I demonstrate how both researchers’ and respondents’ positionality can be used to enhance the rigor of qualitative research.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1177/14733250231183262
Yuxiang Chen
Welcome to this issue of Qualitative Social Work. As a new addition to the editorial team, I have been pleasantly surprised by howmuch I have enjoyed crafting these “In this issue” pieces. Prior to taking on this role, my engagement with academic journals was primarily instrumental and focused on finding empirical or conceptual discussions directly relevant to my own areas of interest. Working as an assistant editor pushes me to carefully read a variety of studies outside my tiny little bubble. While contemplating how to distill the insights from these wonderful studies into concise and accessible summaries for our readers, I am prompted to constantly ask myself questions such as: Who am I as a social work researcher? What connections can I draw between these studies and my own? What are my personal intuitions, biases, and blind spots when attempting to glean insights from these articles? How have my understandings (or the lack thereof) in these various topical, conceptual, or methodological domains shaped my approaches to social work research? I realized that these are questions about positionality—my positionality, as a reader, when I try to engage in dialogue with the intellectual community. In her opening editorial, Lissette M. Piedra draws our attention to positionality—a widely discussed topic in qualitative research. However, Piedra presents a unique perspective on this matter by viewing positionality not simply as a reflexive assessment of potential researcher bias, but as a dynamic “analytical building block” internal to qualitative research process. She encourages us to explore how the researcher’s positionality directly influences their decisions throughout the research design and execution processes. Furthermore, she emphasizes that participants’ positionality also plays a crucial role in shaping their interactions with the researcher, a critical examination of which could enhance analyses of the studied phenomenon. We invite you, our readers, to actively bring your own positionality into dialogue with the 10 studies featured in this issue, since reading itself is an analytical process of integrating new ideas into your own systems of knowledge. This issue starts with two articles exploring the merits of two participatory research methodologies in social work. McGookin utilized photovoice as the primary data
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/14733250231180321
Prince Chiagozie Ekoh, Kathleen Sitter
Visual elicitation methods, such as diagramming, are growing in their use with vulnerable populations, trauma-informed research, and social work studies where the use of traditional oral interviews alone may be lacking in their ability to increase access to different areas of human consciousness. The adoption and designing of innovative diagramming and visual methods have the potential to push the boundaries of data collection in understanding the experiences of forced migrants. However, scholars have seldom adopted this method in forced migration research. In this article, the authors explore three diagramming methods-timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps-to highlight the possibilities of their use for social work research with forced migrants. The benefits of utilising these methods in support of the unique characteristics and challenges of forced migrants are also discussed. The article concludes by identifying several limitations while advocating for the adoption and documentation of the use of diagramming in studies with forced migrants.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1177/14733250231178259
Marina Morgenshtern, Jeanette Schmid
Using the contents of journals has been an underutilized research approach in social work. Journal archives represent what has been legitimated in the discipline as well as what forms the dominant social work canon. To theorize about journal archival sourcing as a research method, we cite the limited extant examples, drawing out from these the methodology used. We then make a case for the value of journal mining and in particular from the vantage point of critical social work and critical discourse analysis, position the Foucauldian history of the present as an appropriate tool for analysis. We draw this article together by describing how to employ this research method and argue that this might be an exceptionally useful tool at this point of the discipline’s history.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1177/14733250231175161
Morgan Braganza, D. Hodge
The North American Muslim population is growing rapidly, but little research has been conducted to help social workers interact with members of this population in a culturally sensitive manner. To assist social workers engage with Muslims in an ethical and effective manner, this qualitative study sought to answer the following questions: how do Muslims experience interactions with non-Muslims and what have they learned from their encounters that might facilitate positive interactions? To answer these two questions, we used narrative inquiry with a sample of 10 Muslim social work students and recent alumni. The findings suggest that Muslims may be treated either positively or negatively by non-Muslims in interactions in various contexts, that they are frequently unable to voice their religious perspectives, and that their religious difference is often portrayed in single-sided or negative ways as well as prioritized against their wishes while ignoring other aspects of their social identities. As a result, many tend to avoid interactions with non-Muslims. The paper offers strategies to foster more respectful interactions with Muslims, such as attending to how much their religious difference is prioritized, and providing opportunities to share their perspectives.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1177/14733250231175506
Johara Suleiman, W. Haight, Sookyoung Park, S. Flanagan
This scoping review describes the available research on the experiences of Somali immigrant parents acculturating within Western countries including the U.S., Canada, South Africa, England, and Scandinavia. A total of 19 studies were identified that focused on Somali immigrant families, discussed parenting, and were written in English. Ten were published in peer-reviewed journals including in social work, mental health, and nursing. The other studies were reported in a book chapter and eight graduate-level theses. The studies were qualitative, and identified several themes related to parental strengths and stressors as they acculturated to Western countries. Stressors included conflicts between Western and Islamic values within racist contexts, shifting from communal to nuclear family parenting, and changes in family dynamics. Strengths included strong ties to spirituality, a deep commitment to family, and a strong love of and pride in their cultural identity. Implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1177/14733250231175386
K. Bain
Text-based vignettes are widely used within qualitative social work research yet there is little guidance on how to construct and integrate them into the research process. This article discusses the uses, benefits and limitations of written vignettes as part of semi-structured interviews and focus groups with social workers and related professionals. It provides clear guidelines on how to design a vignette. This includes the choice of scenario, characteristics of the protagonist, type of vignette, research setting, length, vignettes in semi-structured interviews and pre-testing. Text-based vignettes have been successfully used in social work research on six continents in a variety of research contexts including single context, comparative, cross-sectional, longitudinal and replication studies. Written vignettes are a useful tool to elicit (professional) values, attitudes and decision-making processes in a time efficient manner that produces focused, in-depth knowledge without the need to use real practice examples that could potentially include sensitive data or breach confidentiality. Vignettes have been used to explore a wide range of topics including but not limited to adult safeguarding, care planning, child protection and multi-agency working together. There is some debate whether vignette responses mirror real-life actions. The value of vignette data goes beyond documenting real-world decision-making. It can uncover tacit social work knowledge and unquestioned beliefs to show how they interplay in decision-making.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/14733250231174117
Dan Liu, Ke Cui
This article highlights social work practices for children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) and their families in a hospital. Embodiment is the main theoretical perspective used to analyse complex encounters between clients (children with CLP and their parents) and social workers in concrete interactive situations. It allows us to symmetrically reflect on how encounters between the bodies of clients, the social worker and medical professionals co-construct and redefine the social worker’s identities. Three body-related identities emerge and coexist as the practice proceeds: a normal person with a normal life, a learner without embodied knowledge of a particular illness and a professional with both medical and social work authorities. These three dimensions show how mutual embodiment in contextualised interactions affects the social worker-client relationship. About implications for social work practice, we draw attention to the situated identities of social worker in a specific context, and explain how embodiment serves as a critical tool to improve our understanding of practitioners’ dynamic identities through embodied reflexivity.
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