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56 Int'l Migration Rev. 4 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv56 and id is 1 raw text is: Migration and Methods: Data Ethics, Big Data, and Databases International Migration Review 2022, Vol. 56(1) 4-32 © The Author(s) 2021 Precarious Tim es, Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Professional Tensions: DOI: 10.1177/01979183211014455 journals.sagepub.com/home/mrx The Ethics of Migration *SAGE Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability Irene Bloemraad University of California, Berkeley Cecilia Menjivar@ University of California, Los Angeles Abstract How should migration scholars navigate tensions between our ethical responsi- bilities to research participants and growing open science calls for data trans- parency, replication, and accountability? We elaborate a three-step process to navigate these tensions. First, researchers must understand core principles behind open-science initiatives and the mandates of research ethics boards, especially those related to privacy, confidentiality, and protection from harm, and take them seri- ously. Second, migration researchers must think beyond routinized or mandated procedures to carefully consider the unique vulnerabilities of migrants in their study, which depend on socio-political context. Third, if vulnerabilities are significant, migration researchers should modify (or challenge) procedures elaborated in the name of open science or routinized research ethic board mandates, if inappropriate for their study. We, thus, encourage migration scholars to engage with open-science advocates but also to educate colleagues on migrants' vulnerabilities and to double- down on data security, including vis-A-vis government authorities, as evolving technologies continue to change research practices. Corresponding Author: Irene Bloemraad, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 410 Social Sciences Building, MC#1980, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Email: bloemr@berkeley.edu