Dr Ramón Spaaij (Deputy Director, La Trobe Refugee Research Centre) discusses the process and effects of doing fieldwork by drawing on a three-year ethnographic research project recently carried out with members of Melbourne's Somali community. He also discusses the research methods and key findings, and links these to core issues in anthropology as well as to dominant policy discourses and understandings of sport participation and social integration among resettled refugees in Australia. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.