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Take a look at: David Snow and Leon Anderson. Down on their Luck. U of California Press, around 1995. As well as: Phillipe Bourgeois. In Search of Respect. Cambridge UP, 1995. The first is an ethnography with homeless people in Austin TExas. The second is an ethnography with crack dealers in Spanish Harlem. Both give reflective comments on how they did it, but no real systematic theory of how to do it in general. *************************************************************** David Smilde University of Chicago Universidad Central de Venezuela Address: Apdo. 60712, Chacao 1060, Caracas, Venezuela Telephones: (h)58-2/237-2457; (cel)58-14/902-8551; (o)58-2/753-6977; (f)58-2/753-5750 E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://members.tripod.com.ve/dsmilde/sociology/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Rowland Atkinson <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 9:00 AM Subject: Interviewing absent populations > Dear All > > Im trying to collate any material relating to doing research with people > that are hard to track (such as homeless, the displaced and other > migrants). Does anyone have references or general methodological insight > into strategies for obtaining interviews with such groups? The main problem > with these groups (apart from maintaining contact) would seem to be finding > them in the first place i.e. displaced groups have already left! Literature > on this seems to be sparse at best. > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic query, > > Rowland > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%