ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the crossroads researchers face during various phases of the research process. In psychoanalytic theory, the category of the Other is as primordial as consciousness itself. Othering thus becomes a rationale and a justification for inequality. Qualitative research is deeply involved with the concept of the Other. Michal Krumer-Nevo experiences the danger of Othering in a study she carrying out on and with a community of immigrants who came to Israel from the Caucasus. The community originates in the Caucasus, a region in the southern former Soviet Union that embraces a diversity of ethnic groups and nations. The roots of this perception lie in the Orientalist discourse adopted in the Soviet Union that distinguished between Ashkenazi Jews and Mizrachi Jews who lived in the Asian republics, among them the Kavkazi. The immigrants are termed in Hebrew Kavkazi from Hebrew word for Caucasus. The members of Kavkazi community are unique in their keen awareness of the dangers of Othering.
