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Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 11] 2025
► pp. 253–260

Chapter 13
Commentary: Challenging extractive epistemologies through positionalities of relation and community accountability

 | Teachers College, Columbia University
This commentary on Part 3 of Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying Voices from Immigrant, Transnational, and Refugee Communities focuses on how qualitative literacy researchers have begun to rethink positionality in ways that challenge extractivist epistemologies and create new opportunities to work alongside and in the service of multilingual, transnational, and/or immigrant and refugee communities.
Keywords: qualitative, literacy, multilingual, methodology, positionality
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