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In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia Lopez Juarez and Mirian A. Mijangos Garcia-two local immigrant workers from Latin America-joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In 'Decolonizing Ethnography' the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos Garcia and Lopez Juarez transformed the project's activist and academic dimensions. In so doing, they offer a guide for those wishing to expand the potential of ethnography to serve as a means for social transformation and decolonization.

Anthropology --- Ethnology --- Eurocentrism --- Critical pedagogy --- Racism in higher education --- Education, Higher --- Education and globalization --- Decolonization --- Marginality, Social --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- Globalization and education --- Globalization --- Critical humanism in education --- Radical pedagogy --- Critical theory --- Education --- Popular education --- Transformative learning --- Eurocentricity --- Ethnocentrism --- Methodology --- Social aspects --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Anthropology - Methodology --- Ethnology - Methodology --- Education, Higher - Social aspects --- Marginality, Social - Developing countries