Critical discourse analysis and ethnography: A methodological proposal for the study of otherness with migrant populations

Abstract

The paper shows a methodological proposal carried on in a PhD research, entitled “La población inmigrante extranjera y la construcción de la diferencia. Discursos de alteridad en el sistema educativo andaluz” (Olmos Alcaraz 2009). In the text is analized the convination of Critical Discourse Analysis and Ethnography, to approach the study of the ‘construction of the difference’ toward foreign migrant students in Spain. To do that in the paper are described the procceses of production and analysis of the data and the results obtained in the research on the methodological sphere, to claim an inter, multi and trans-disciplinary approach in Social Science