Rose-Myrlie Joseph
In my doctoral research, which combines clinical sociology and an international intersectional materialist feminism, I listened to both Haitian migrants and the French women who employed them. This article offers a reflexive look at the relationship between myself, a Black Haitian migrant doctoral student, and three white employers whose anti-racist discourse clashes with practices described in the employment relationship or observed in the research. Considering my positions as both insider and outsider, I will analyze the inversion or rejection, benevolence, and care in the research. Then I will examine the adaptation of clinical practice to research with dominant groups, considering in particular the co-construction of knowledge and the emancipatory aim.