| Description |
1 online resource |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases
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| Summary |
This research case describes my use of document analysis for research on child labor in Thailand and Myanmar’s border areas (i.e., Thai–Myanmar border, Northern Myanmar’s border with China, and Southern Thailand). A nexus between human insecurity and international security, child labor in these areas has been long neglected by researchers. My field investigation on child labor in these areas faced two main obstacles. The first was the prevalence of uncleaned landmines along the Thai–Myanmar border and Northern Myanmar’s border with China. The second was the daily occurrence of coordinated attacks against military and civilian targets in Southern Thailand. As a result of the obstacles these factors posed to field investigation, my research project prioritized document analysis (a research method for examining or evaluating documents in both printed and electronic formats), especially document analysis using secondary data, which is a low-cost way to obtain information. Document analysis using secondary data offers researchers a number of advantages. These include providing an effective means to collect data in both digital and printed formats, and reanalyzing pre-existing data collected for the purposes of past research to explore new issues from another point of view, when field investigation for a sensitive case seems impossible or inadvisable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on XML content |
| Subject |
Child labor -- Burma -- Sources
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Child labor -- Thailand -- Sources
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Security, International -- Sources
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Child labor.
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Security, International.
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| SUBJECT |
Burma -- Boundaries -- Thailand -- Social conditions -- Sources
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Thailand -- Boundaries -- Burma -- Social conditions -- Sources
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| Subject |
Burma.
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Thailand.
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| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1526490501 |
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9781526490506 |
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