A fascinating research I look forward to reading

LSE PhD student Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed  researches domestic workers, a.k.a. househelp/housemaid/houseboy, in Lagos:

My research is an account of the lives of male and female domestic workers in Lagos, Nigeria. It looks at the forms of control they experience in their daily interactions with their employers, as well as the multiple ways they respond to such control. This qualitative study involved eight months of fieldwork from November 2011 to July 2012 in Lagos, during which a total of 79 interviews were conducted.

In this research I used a snowball-sampling technique to access domestic workers.

I identified several different “snowballs” (relatives, friends, domestic workers) who were then asked to name an acquaintance who might be interested in participating in my study. Each new participant was then asked to recommend someone they knew.

Here.