In this chapter, we as authors enter into a dialogue in an attempt to (re)visitcaring encounters in ethnographic research.1 The dialogue is built on our PhDresearch projects which we conducted with different groups of people withexperiences of migration and seeking asylum in two different migratory settings.Eda’s dissertation project seeks to explore the everyday and migratory experiences of Iranian queer migrants who apply for refugee status and wait for resettlement in Turkey.2 For this study, Eda conducted multisited ethnographic fieldworkCaring encounters in ethnographic research 129that spread between the period December 2011 and February 2014, followed bysome informal/unstructured, sporadic, online research interactions. Djampour’sPhD research, Borders Crossing Bodies: The stories of eight youth with experience ofmigrating (2018), retells the stories of borders through time, hope, love, dreamsand resistance in the lives of young people who have migrated to Sweden. Thestudy was conducted through ethnographic fieldwork between 2013 and 2015 inthree cities in Sweden together with young participants who were in their earlyadulthood.
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