Abstract
Research on a marginalized community which may utilize collective tactics such as dissimulation raises numerous potential methodological issues, concerns and problems. This chapter is devoted to methodology discussions on epistemology and research ethics, in addition to providing more detailed information about the research locations, specific sites, and informant profiles. It answers two sets of questions: first, how is it possible to gather reliable data about a community when its members are dissimulating? Second, if dissimulation is a collective tactic of a marginalized community to cope with structural disadvantages, how might publishing about these tactics influence the community? Several psychologists and security studies experts have raised epistemological issues regarding dissimulation when that condition is clearly seen to be threatening, concentrating on how to identify dissimulation of individuals or groups in order to prevent it from happening.Keywords: dissimulation; epistemological issues; marginalized community
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