The Intersectionality of Social Exclusion and International Comparison: Rethinking the Methodological Nuances

Title

The Intersectionality of Social Exclusion and International Comparison: Rethinking the Methodological Nuances

Creator

Nef S.; Kumaramkandath R.

Description

This chapter foregrounds the methodological considerations involved in a cross-national comparison of qualitative data on social exclusion and marginalization. Drawing on the possibilities of intersectional multilevel analysis in Indian and Swiss contexts, the chapter further discusses the nuances of juxtaposing these data. It follows attempts by a Swiss-Indian research team to study how marginalization involves multiple intersectionalities that operate simultaneously. It aims to capture the experiences of migrant workers in India and people without legal residency status in Switzerland during the COVID-19 lockdown, placing them against the cultural histories, social structures, and state interventions. Using intersectionality, the study explores how structures of exclusion operate at multiple levels of subjectivity and, through epistemic violence, naturalize social inequalities. The project attempts to identify how they are still being rendered invisible and their miseries normalized, invoking the impression that it is perpetual. Cross-border research becomes significant in the context of internationalization and globalization, and the chapter discusses the issues and the promises of such a comparison. Beyond the cultural boundaries and differences and the conceptual-methodological incongruities, we argue that the comparison can illuminate how power relations operate at multiple levels in different contexts, reproducing and normalizing discriminatory mechanisms. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024, corrected publication 2024.

Source

Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State: Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework, pp. 31-49.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Subject

COVID-19 lockdown; Indo-Swiss comparison; Intersectionality; Methodological nuances; Race and class; Social exclusion

Coverage

Nef S., Department of Social Work, Institute of Diversity and Social Integration, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zich, Switzerland; Kumaramkandath R., Department of Sociology and Social Work, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-303152227-7; 978-303152226-0

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52227-7_3

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