This article focuses on the reflections of a fieldwork conducted in Burkina Faso as part of a doctoral study that focused on the forced return of Burkinabè migrant workers. It speaks to both researchers ‘in-between'and researchers in social work who find themselves caught wearing hats sometimes in tension as practitioners, researchers and none the less as fieldworkers who belong to the studied society. The purpose of this article to that effect tightens around the two points that means the positions of researchers "in-between" and social workers placed in the role of researcher during interactions in field.
ethnography; researchers of "in-between"; researchers-practitioners