Ethnography’s Contribution to Newspaper Analysis: Claims-Making Revisited. CES Papers - Open Forum #12, 2012

Newspaper data are a popular data source for studies across the social sciences. This paper empirically examines the widespread criticisms that this data is hampered by selection, description and researcher bias. It does so by taking one of the most authoritative European comparative research projects ‘Mobilisation on Ethnic Relations, Citizenship and Immigration’ (MERCI) as its case study given that the resulting publications have inspired many researches on both sides of the Atlantic to apply the so-called ‘claims-making’ method (e.g. Koopmans, Statham, Giugni and Passy 2005). Drawing on the author’s familiarity with the Dutch part of the data set and field specific expertise, this paper qualitatively re-analyses the claims recorded for Surinamese, Turkish and Kurdish migrants in the Netherlands and reviews the conclusions for migrant transnationalism and integration in particular. It reveals how an ethnographic approach can tackle description bias and researcher unreliability and brings selection bias into full view. While offering concrete suggestions for incorporating ethnography into newspaper analysis, it also exposes the limits of these methods for the study of cross-border activities such as migrant transnationalism.

Johnnie Doolittle, General Doolittle's son, in dorm room, with newspaper headline of Tokyo raid. 5/20/1942

(Ivory took photos for A.P.)

The Commercial & financial chronicle ... : a weekly newspaper representing the industrial interests of the United States.

Microform.

Red Star on military affairs, 1945-1952 ; a selected, annotated list of articles in the Soviet military newspaper /

U.S. Air Force Project Rand.

Newspaper days.

Originally published under title: A book about myself.

The '85 address, together with some newspaper and magazine articles discussing the Amherst idea.

E. Parmalee Prentice, chairman of the class of 1885.

Newspaper district management, including the hour-a-day plan of training newspaper boys to sell,/

Mode of access: Internet.

The reporter's manual: a handbook for newspaper men,

p. 83-84, advertising matter.

Newspaper work, an address./

Cover-title.

Newspaper sales promotion: the fields, the media, the methods,

In five parts and bibliography, each preceded by half-title not included in paging.

Southern California's first newspaper : the founding of the Los Angeles Star /

"Two hundred copies printed by Anderson & Ritchie for Glen Dawson, May, 1941."

Proceedings of the first National Newspaper Conference, Madison, July 29-August 1, 1912.

At head of title: Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin, general information and welfare.

The Novel Newspaper.

Mode of access: Internet.