ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the researcher’s experiences during a multi-year project focused on the experiences of immigrant and migrant students at six rural secondary schools. While pointing to a few more successful relationships with rural teachers and administrators, it centers on the researcher’s experience of being disinvited from future visits to a research site after the presidential election due to an email calling out prejudice against the immigrant students his work focused on. After narrating these experiences, the author draws on scholarship focused on researcher self-representation, emotionality, and white fragility while reflecting on the dilemmas that researchers may encounter when working in communities different from their own.
