ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and explains the techniques used to generate data in this context. Beginning with a description of property damage and death threats against Serbians in Adelaide, it establishes a qualitative research position that is critical of positivist ethnography and supportive of the idea that the researcher is an integral part of the data generation process. The chapter discusses research that illustrates a distinctive characteristic of the author's involvements throughout his ethnographic journey. Research activity with Serbian Australians involved a series of simultaneous processes built around generating trust and networking with participants. A combination of snowball sampling and direct approaches to people of Serbian descent was the means for involvement of fieldwork participants. The application of relevant nursing concepts and the critique of conventional ethnography led the author to interpret the interactive and inter-subjective processes of data generation with participants.
