Emotional Encounters During Fieldwork: Researching Brazilian Women Migrants as a Brazilian Women Researcher

This paper addresses the ethical implications of doing qualitative research among migrant women while being a woman researcher myself. Brennan (2014)’s affective turn shows us how affect (both positive and negative) irradiates powerfully between one subject another; Ahmed (2010) reminds that our situation may shape what/how we will feel. Based on experiences reflections, since my PhD in 2008, Brazilian migrants’ Portugal, I borrow Teresa Brennan’s concepts Sara Ahmed’s notion emotion to look at encounters throughout fieldwork with bodies vice versa. Moving away from insider/outsider dichotomy, argue knowledge production practice is reciprocal emotional reaction, surrounded by inequality power dynamics, which entails set when translating these reactions as outputs.