The chapter will discuss the moral and ethical dilemmas of conducting fieldwork in a social context in which everyday violence and suspicion features predominantly. In this context, methodological practice such as reflectivity, informed consent, fieldworker's responsibility, rapport and reciprocity need to be considered to engage with the ethics of fieldwork. In ethnographic (qualitative) fieldwork, the question of a researcher's subject position becomes fundamental as he or she is expected to engage with and become immersed in the situation and, at the same time, be objective and neutral. This becomes even more difficult in dangerous field sites where the researcher's wellbeing is constantly at risk. The fieldworker is mandated to generate ‘thick description’ (Geertz 1973), and in this process is obliged to spend time with his respondents, friends, interlocutors–informants in a way that goes beyond conventional data collection in qualitative research practice. In the process of recording data, the fieldworker encounters anxiety, dilemmas and undeclared challenges. A range of ethical issues emerges, which that I will discuss in this chapter, as one creates a set goals for fieldwork that cannot be considered during the planning and permission stage.