Multi-sited Qualitative Research in Architectural Study: Researching Spatially Dispersed Migrants in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan

Researching Spatially Dispersed Migrants in Balikpapan East Kalimantan

Abstract

The study of migrants' living arrangements in their destination cities falls within the scope of architecture, as it involves spatial mobility and its implications for the built environment. Migrants' place to live in destination city belongs to study of architecture as it concerns spatial mobility implicating a certain built environment in destination city. This article concerns addresses the issue of spatially dispersed migrants, focusing specifically on Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, one of Indonesia's prominent migration destinations.with particular reference to one of prominent migration destinations in Indonesia, namely Balikpapan East Kalimantan. This article aims to present the exploration of research site selection as well as its methodological consideration to tackle the aforementioned issueissue. To achieve thisdo so, it employs and highlights the prominence of multi-sited qualitative research, especially particularly the notion of ‘follow the people’. Theis article follows draws on guidance of bodies of studies categorised as methodological reflection and employs, putting forward the narrative genre of presentinga narrative approach to present its findings.