Abstract
There have been plenty general discussions in anthropology about participant observation method and the role of anthropologist in the field during the research. Raised questions were mainly related to what extend does anthropologist have to participate in the field and how to find the balance between participation and observation of people's life.
But what about the specific of conducting ethnographic fieldwork within society of which anthropologist himself is a member? Does the so called ""insider"" or ""native"" anthropologist better fulfill the instruction to reveal a particular society from emic-perspective? Or does anthropologist, because of the identification with his/her research group and familiarity, loose some kind of sensibility due to the taken for-granted reality? And what are specifics of endo-ethnography in context of migration research? I'll try to answer these questions on a base of relevant literature and by incorporation personal narrative as endo-ethnographer into a wider discussion on this topic.