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Methodology and Data

The three-year project is led by an anthropologist (as PI) accompanied by two sociologists and one interior architect, who are each experts on belonging, migration and homemaking. The project relies on ethnographic fieldwork in homes, including 150 hours of participant observation, 60 life history interviews and 30 mental maps. It employs maximum variation sampling and will recruit participants via the researcher’s pre-existing contacts and snowball sampling in three cities in Turkey (Istanbul, Gaziantep, and Hatay) which represent "strategic research sites" for the study of Syrian integration. The project applies a constructivist Grounded Theory Approach, whereby major themes and codes are identified flexibly throughout the research process. Still, a detailed procedure for coding, shared codes applied in Nvivo software and close management of interdisciplinary analysis is foreseen.