Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and ...

diverse society. In other words, the glocal space was a laboratory where one could
observe the alignments and misalignments in somewhat controlled social environment.
The fieldwork sites were selected by each partner with respect to an operational
definition of a glocal space. The respondents were selected with respect to their
“objective belonging” to the six categories that Glocalmig studies. Between 3 to 5
persons would be selected from each category and, if persons belonging to a category
were not found in the respective fieldwork site, the reason for this would be accounted
for in each country report. In addition, both genders would be properly represented in
the samples. Basically, persons who were present in the fieldwork site at the time of the
fieldwork were interviewed. As a result, we managed to find respondents with varying
degrees of participation in the glocal spaces as well as people who also attend to other
spaces such as ethnic organizations, corporate-plural organizations, nation-wide spaces
of participation, transnational spaces, etc. Such a random selection of the respondents,
thus, allowed us to observe the mobility between different channels of participation and
of rights-exercise.
Due to certain context-specific reasons, some of these site-selection criteria were not
satisfied by the potential fieldwork site in Estonia, and the fieldwork in Tallinn was
therefore conducted in multicultural sites instead of glocal sites. On the other hand,
because glocal sites proved to be much more informal and de-territorialized in Budapest
than in the other five cities, the snowball method of respondent selection had to be used
in the fieldwork in Budapest.
The respondents were first asked to fill in the questionnaire and then invited to an indepth
interview. The questionnaire was a comprehensive one; and it required the
respondents to ponder over certain questions that they had not thought of before. In this
sense, the questionnaire was also time-wise demanding; but most of the respondents
managed to complete the questionnaire. On the other hand, some of the questions were
deliberately provocative (different provocative questions for different categories of people
were used). Most of such questions were designed in order to prepare – not to influence
– the respondents for the qualitative in-depth interviews. Most respondents took up the
provocative questions themselves during the interviews, which proved to result in better
and more accurate findings.
The following in-depth interviews comprised structured, semi-structured, and openended
questions about respondents’ belonging and identity patterns, participation
patterns, psychic mobility, etc. The complementary application of a questionnaire and indepth
interviews resulted in a more nuanced data material. The method used for
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