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This open access book addresses key issues, challenges, and techniques in applying qualitative methodologies to migration studies. It explores theoretical, epistemological, and empirical questions that arise before, during, and after conducting qualitative research in this field. The text highlights recent innovations and discusses significant challenges faced at various stages, including crafting research questions, defining approaches, developing concepts and frameworks, mapping categories, selecting cases, and addressing self-reflection. It also covers empirical evidence collection through diverse techniques, including visual data, ethical considerations, and policy-research dialogues. Each chapter evaluates the strengths and limitations of qualitative research and identifies drivers for its development in migration studies. The volume uniquely combines multidisciplinary perspectives and real-world illustrations from experienced authors, with a particular focus on the European context, exploring theoretical and methodological issues specific to this region. This resource serves as a valuable reference for scholars, professionals, and graduate students entering qualitative research in migration studies, providing insights for those new to the field.

During the last two decades, the debate on multiculturalism has been one-dimensional. It has deployed arguments related to cultural demands linked either to feminism, immigration, or national minorities. Little attention has been given to the relations between these dimensions, and how they affect each other. The purpose of this book is to set a research agenda around the interaction between cultural demands of immigrants and minority nations. The primary aim is to establish basic normative arguments while advancing an institutional analysis in three contexts: Quebec, Flanders and Catalonia. Each part contains two chapters that address the topic in terms of how immigration is seen from a self-government perspective, or how self-government is interpreted from an immigration perspective. The different chapters raise questions related to how this interaction challenges the idea of a culturally homogeneous nation-state, and also pushes us to other conceptualisations of «political community» and de-nationalised forms of citizenship. Current debates on diversity have failed to address these issues in societies where a dual belonging exists.