Career paths of Moroccan immigrants in Spain with experience in the export industry in origin. Methodological issues of research
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/57953Metadatos
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Universidad de Almería
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Field work Grounded theory In-depth Interview Methodological Complementation Research Design
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2017Referencia bibliográfica
Barros Rodríguez, F. (2017). Career paths of Moroccan immigrants in Spain with experience in the export industry in origin. Methodological issues of research. Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios, ISSN: 2173-1950, 2017, Vol. 7(3), Número Especial, pp. 29-50.
Resumen
In recent decades a process of export-oriented industrialisation has been implemented in
Morocco. Many foreign companies are starting to relocate their production to Moroccan
territory, benefiting (as have other agents) from the tax advantages offered by the
government. The lack of labour rights in these companies gives workers an impulse to
quit and emigrate abroad. About fifty thousand Moroccan immigrants with labour
experience in the industry in Morocco live in Spain. This paper summarises the
methodological decisions taken in a doctoral thesis which aimed to study the working
and migratory careers of the Moroccan population in Spain who previously worked in
the export industry of their country. Throughout the article, questions are answered
about research design, data collection techniques, the field work that was carried out or
the analytical and synthetic processing of information. For example, the commitment to
methodological complementation as a model for gathering data, the conducting of fifty
eight in-depth interviews (both in Spain and in Morocco), the preparation and use of the
microdata of the National Immigrant Survey in 2007 or the use of grounded theory as a
model of analysis.