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Journal of Refugee Studies Advance Access published online on July 22, 2009
Journal of Refugee Studies, doi:10.1093/jrs/fep020
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Residential Sampling and Johannesburg's Forced Migrants

Darshan Vigneswaran

Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Box 76, Wits 2050, South Africa darshan.vigneswaran{at}wits.ac.za

This study examines a residential sampling technique that was used to survey refugees in inner-city Johannesburg. The survey's sampling framework assumed that, once displaced populations had settled, they could be a) adequately categorized according to residential sampling ‘frames’; and b) readily accessed in their homes. The paper explores the theoretical and practical limits of these assumptions. It shows how the particularly volatile relationship between respondents and the urban landscape made it difficult to generate a representative sample. The paper uses these findings to call for sampling procedures that are better suited to forced migrants’ experiences of urban space.

Key Words: surveys • methodology • South Africa • space • refugees • sampling

MS received July 1, 2008 ; revised MS received March 1, 2009
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