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A summary of conversational interviews and coding/ transcription as qualitative research methods. Prepared as a part of an Introduction to Geographical Research methods project, which focused on female student's interactions with space and place. Documents included in the summary: Valentine, G., 2013. Tell me about...: using interviews as a research methodology. In Methods in human geography (pp. 110-127). Routledge. Cloke, P. and Johnston, R. eds., 2005. Spaces of Geographical Thought: De...

This essay critically analyses the statement the concept that the “significance of scale lies in the processes that continually reconstitute it as theoretically, materially, and politically important” (Sayre and Di Vittorio, 2009). It argues that by choosing the scale at which political discussions take place, public understanding and reactions to the issue can be manipulated.

This essay focuses upon the research of A.Mountz and N.Hiemstra (2014), N.De Genova (2013) and M.Coleman (2007), in assessing the scope and quality of their findings, in revealing contemporary issues and patterns of undocumented migration in its new geographical expressions.