In their ethnography Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas studied the realities of single motherhood for poor, urban women. They immersed themselves in the community before beginning their research. Edin moved her family to the city, and both ethnographers volunteered in community programs. Immersing themselves in the community is an example of

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Immersing themselves in the community allowed the researchers to gain access to the community, to understand the lives and experiences of the women they were studying, and to become part of the community themselves.

In Their Ethnography Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women