Shadowing as a Methodology: Notes from Research in Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Milan

This chapter, written by four graduate students, introduces and critically evaluates the research methods of shadowing. Discussing their current and future fieldwork about different facets of Muslim lives in European cities (Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Milan) Oğuz Alyanak, Sherria Ayuandini, Guillermo Martín-Sáiz and Lauren Crossland-Marr introduce their concrete research questions and how shadowing was a helpful research tool for collecting data for their projects. They discuss brief experiences they made while shadowing and explain aspects of the data they gathered while also pointing to potential issues and limitations with shadowing.