This 5 page paper outlines the methodology that can be used to assess the experiences of female asylum seekers in the UK when seeking help from the welfare state. The paper considers an approach and then justified the use of a qualitative case study approach. The paper cites 10 sources.
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state of knowledge in the subject area, available resources and the goals of the research. The issue of welfare and the way that women asylum seekers are treated may
be seen as a very subjective subject, it is possible that many experiences are divergent as a result of differing input factor, such as the port of arrival, the country
of original and personal circumstances, if research has the aim of determining the commonalities in the experiences in order to help with the future determination of policy a methodology needs
to be chosen that will allow the assessment of the experiences in a manful manner, accepting that gathering a large amount of results may not be practical. The first
stage in developing a methodology is to look at the approach that will be taken. Eriksson and Wiedersheim-Paul, (1997) state that there are three general structures that can be
used in research terms; exploratory, descriptive and explanatory. Where there is a problem and the purpose of the study is to increase the understanding of that problem the exploratory approach
can be very useful (Saunders et al, 2000). This is an approach that looks at gathering the basic data regarding the problem and the scenario and has the aim of
developing that knowledge and proposition that can then be used for further research (Yin, 1994). The descriptive study approach looks at the
isolated empirical generalisations that have already been studied and published and tries to explain these (Miles and Huberman, 1994). This can be defined as making "complicated things understandable by reducing
them to their component parts" (Miles and Huberman, 1994). This is most suitable where the research is not to look at the research between the causes and the symptoms, but