Opportunities:
Book launch:
The Right to Research, Online,
24 April 2023 [
info]
Migration Summit: Localising research with refugees: An ethical way forward, Online,
25 April 2023 [
info]
Migration Summit: Panel on Research with Refugees and Displaced Populations, Online,
27 April 2023 [
info]
Research symposium: Meeting the ‘Dual Imperative’: Working towards solutions for displacement in the Asia Pacific through policy-oriented research, Online,
27-28 April 2023 [
info]
Migration Summit: Building a refugee-led research agenda - positionality, ethics and accountability, Online,
28 April 2023 [
info]
Migration Summit: Participatory Research-Practice Partnerships, Online,
28 April 2023 [
info]
Short pieces & commentaries:
"Commentary: Can big data deliver its promises in migration research,"
International Migration, vol. 60, no. 2 (April 2022) [
open access]
"Commentary: Conceptual contours of migration studies in and from Asia,"
International Migration, vol. 59, no. 6 (Dec. 2021) [
open access]
Decolonising knowledge production on South-South migration (MIDEQ Blog, March 2022) [
text]
Digital research on twentieth-century refugees: dealing with information overload (Refugee History Blog, Nov. 2022) [
text]
Feminist Theory in Refugee Law Blog Series (RLI Blog) [
access]
- The Working Group on Feminist Theory and Displacement was formed "to rekindle feminist engagement not only with refugee law narrowly understood, but also with legal displacement research more broadly. Based on the conviction that they have great reformatory potential, this group engages in regular discussions about the relevance of feminist approaches to legal displacement research, extending beyond refugee law to consider the legal protection of other forcibly displaced persons. This blog series, which will be released throughout 2023, will highlight some of these discussions."
How new tools can more accurately measure the intersection of forced displacement, gender, and poverty (Development for Peace Blog, March 2022) [
text]
How often is gender addressed in research on forced displacement? (Development for Peace Blog, March 2023) [
text]
Knowledge, Voice and Power Blog Series (LERRN) [
access]
- "This blog series continues the conversation from the recently launched Forced Migration Review 70th issue on Knowledge, Voice and Power, which was supported by LERRN. In this blog series we feature authors from around the world reflecting on questions about involving people with lived experiences of displacement in multiple contexts, as well as scholars based in the Global South, from research to policy discussions."
Leveraging household surveys to boost research on climate migration (Let's Talk Development Blog, July 2022) [
text]
Research chairs will anchor knowledge on forced displacement in the Global South (IDRC, Dec. 2021) [
text]
Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short (IIED Blog, Feb. 2022) [
text]
Researching ourselves: (Non)emotional thoughts on what it means to be a Ukrainian scholar fleeing the war (MPC Blog, March 2023) [
text]
Re-thinking Migration Studies? Developing social research training with refugee communities in Jordan (MPC Blog, March 2022) [
text]
The Right to Research: A Conversation between Emplaced and Displaced Scholars (FluchtforschungsBlog, April 2023) [
text]
"Using research to inform policies and operations,"
JDC Newsletter (March 2022) [
text]
Reports & book chapters:
“Co-investigators but with different power”: Local voices on the localization of humanitarian research (Tufts Univ., Feb. 2023) [
text]
Delivering Quality Research in Culturally Dynamic, Conflict-Affected Contexts: Lessons from Large-Scale Pilot Research in Cox’s Bazar (NYU Global TIES for Children, July 2022) [
text]
"Ethical and Methodological Issues When Conducting Research with Children in Situations of Forced Migration," Chapter in
Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Forthcoming Feb. 2022) [
Academia]
Forced Migration Studies and Policy Dialogue—Promoting New Ways of Knowledge Production and Policy Transfer, Project Note (FFVT, Oct. 2022) [
text]
"Gender Gaps in Migration Studies: Recent Developments and Prospects," Chapter in
Gender Equality in the Mirror: Reflecting on Power, Participation and Global Justice (Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2022) [
open access]
Guidelines for Co-Produced Research with Refugees and Other People with Lived Experience of Displacement (Kaldor Centre et al., Feb. 2023)
Longitudinal research with people on the move: Methodological report on piloting repeated interviews with refugees and migrants (Mixed Migration Centre & Univ. of Edinburgh, June 2022) [
text]
Participation of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Research: Guidance for Researchers from Researchers (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2023) [
text]
Report on the Workshop "African Forced Migration Research in Germany," Freiburg, 11 June 2022 [
text]
Research involving people of refugee background: Considerations for ethical engagement (University College Dublin, June 2022) [
text]
Your Rights in Research: An Information Sheet for People Taking Part in Forced Migration Research (Centre for Refugee Studies et al., posted Dec. 2021) [
access]
- Note: This information sheet is available in 20 different languages.
Journal articles:
"Adapting to Crisis: Migration Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic,"
Migration & Society, vol. 5, no. 1 (2022) [
open access]
"'Ain’t I a Woman?': Feminist Participatory Action-Research with African Migrant Women Living in Spain,"
Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 22 March 2023 [
open access]
"Beyond the partnership debate: localizing knowledge production in refugee and forced migration studies,"
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2022) [
open access]
"Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’,"
Qualitative Research, OnlineFirst, 2 Jan. 2023 [
open access]
"Community-Based Research in Fragile Contexts: Reflections from Rohingya Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh,"
Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 11, no. 1 (2023) [
full-text]
"Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies,"
Comparative Migration Studies, 10:33 (2022) [
open access]
"Do we really want to know? The journey to implement empirical research recommendations in ICRC's responses in Myanmar and Lebanon,"
Disasters, vol. 47, no. 2 (April 2023) [
open access]
"Ethics and research in humanitarian settings,"
Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 19 (March 2022) [
full-text]
"Ethics as a Moral Duty: Proposing an Integrated Ethics Framework for Migration Research,"
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Advance Articles, 21 Sept. 2022 [
free full-text]
"From Ethical Challenges to Opportunities: Reflections on Participatory and Collaborative Research with Refugees in Australia,"
Ethics and Social Welfare, vol. 15, no. 2 (2021) [
preprint]
"'I’m Going to Tell You Something I Never Told Anyone': Ethics- and Trauma-Informed Challenges of Implementing a Research Protocol with Syrian Refugees,"
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 20, no. 2 (Dec. 2022) [
open access]
"Laying the groundwork for participatory research with a Rohingya refugee community,"
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 28, no. 3 (2022) [
postprint]
"Methodological Quandaries of Studying Post-Soviet Displacements: An Invitation to Consider ‘Global Postcoloniality’ in Forced Migration Studies,"
Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 60 (2022) [
full-text]
- Scroll to p. 1.
"Migration Studies: How Should We Approach Them? Learning Through Participatory Practices. The So-Close Case Study,"
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24 Dec. 2022 [
open access]
"Migration Theory in Climate Mobility Research,"
Frontiers in Climate, 10 May 2022 [
open access]
"NGO-academia research co-production in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges,"
Disasters, vol. 47, no. 2 (April 2023) [
open access]
"Problematising concepts and methods for civil society research in superdiverse neighbourhoods,"
Voluntary Sector Review: An international journal of third sector research, policy and practice, Early View, 6 July 2022 [
open access]
"Reflecting on Crisis: Ethics of Dis/Engagement in Migration Research,"
Migration & Society, vol. 5, no. 1 (2022) [
open access]
"Remote Methods for Research on Violence Against Women and Children: Lessons and Challenges from Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic,"
BMJ Global Health, vol. 7, no. 11 (Nov. 2022) [
open access]
"Researching governance in difficult times and places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan,"
Development Policy Review, vol. 41, no. S1 (March 2023) [
open access]
"Rethinking research methods in protracted violent conflicts in Mozambique: fieldwork in complex emergencies,"
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, EarlyCite, 20 March 2023 [
open access]
"Revisiting the ‘dual imperative’ of forced-migration studies – commentary to Refstie,"
Fennia: International Journal of Geography, vol. 200, no. 1 (2022) [
open access]
- "The author concludes that, while research should be conducted in solidarity with refugees and those collaborating with them, such as activists, scholars must maintain reflexive criticism considering which actions and approaches are suitable and desired in particular contexts."
"The stories behind stories: Reflections on the role of voice in research with unaccompanied refugee youth,"
International Migration, vol. 61, no. 2 (April 2023) [
open access]
"Using participatory video for co-production and collaborative research with refugees: critical reflections from the
Digital Place-makers program,"
Learning, Media and Technology, Latest Articles,14 Jan. 2023 [
open access]
"'We’re not that much different from you!': navigating positions of betweenness to explore solidarity, care and vulnerability in refugee and forced migration research,"
Social & Cultural Geography, Latest Articles, 21 March 2023 [
open access]
"WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil,"
Media and Communication, vol. 10, no. 3 (2022) [
open access]
Special issues:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 49, no. 2 (2023) [
contents]
- Special issue on "Computational Approaches to Migration and Integration Research."
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 28, no. 3 (July 2022) [
contents]
- Special issue on "Collaborative and Participatory Research to Promote Engagement, Empowerment, and Resilience for Immigrant and Refugee Youth, Families, and Communities."
Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (Sept. 2022) [
open access]
- Themed issue on "Knowledge, Voice and Power."
MENA Politics: Newsletter of the Middle East and North Africa Politics Section of APSA, vol. 5, no. 2 (Fall 2022) [
full-text]
- Includes a sub-section on "Research Symposium: How to Study (and Not Study) Refugees in the MENA." Scroll to p. 21.
- Includes a special dossier "Expanding the debate: reflections on ethics practices in research with refugees and migrants in/from Latin America."
New books:
Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Feb. 2022) [
info]
- This volume "explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers."
Introduction to Migration Studies: An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on Migration and Diversity (Springer, June 2022) [
open access]
- "This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. It also covers politics, policies and governance as well as specific research methods. As an interactive guide, this book develops an innovative format that brings a connection with various online sources. This means that whereas the chapters bring together literature in a coherent way, they are also connected to IMISCOE's online interactive
Migration Research Hub for further reading and for more empirical material on migration and diversity."
Migration Research in a Digitized World: Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges (Springer, July 2022) [
open access]
- "This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and methodological expertise, the book addresses a range of crucial issues related to both researcher-designed data collections and the secondary use of 'big data', highlighting opportunities as well as challenges and limitations."
Refugees and Knowledge Production: Europe's Past and Present (Routledge, Feb. 2022) [
open access]
- "Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility. With critical attention to the meaning, production and scope of ‘refugee scholarship’ generated at the institutions of higher education, it also focuses on ‘refugee knowledge’ produced outside academia, and scrutinizes the conditions according to which it is validated or silenced."
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring for (Big) Data? (Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2021) [
open access]
- "Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but also the activities of other actors, from solidarity networks to border control agencies. In doing so, digital technologies create a whole new set of ethical and methodological challenges for migration studies: from data access to data interpretation, privacy protection, and research ethics more generally."
The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Jan. 2023) [
info]
- Features "nine works by refugee and host-community researchers from across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Identifying the intrinsic challenges of making space for diverse voices within a research framework and infrastructure that is inherently unequal, this edited volume offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and perspectives to bear."
Multimedia:
Building Research Relationships and Setting the Agenda, 19 Nov. 2021 [
access]
Changing the Structures of Forced Migration Research, 31 March 2022 [
access]
Critical Reflections on 'Decolonising' Humanitarianism and Refugee-Related Research Roundtable, 4 July 2022 [
access]
Discussion with
The Right to Research Book Editors and Contributors, 4 April 2023 [
access]
The Localization of Humanitarian Research Webinar, 9 March 2023 [
access]
On co-production and collaborative research with refugees (The Migration Podcast, Jan. 2022) [
access]
Participatory approaches in research with population of refugee background, 9 March 2023 [
access]
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Migration Studies and Research, 16 March 2022 [
access]
Seminar Series on Forced Migration [
access]
- "Bringing together scholars, policy makers and practitioners from different disciplines and regions, the Seminar Series aspires to decentering Europe-focused scholarship, debates, and policies on forced migration."
The Transformative Potential of Inclusive and Localized Refugee and Forced Displacement Research, 24 May 2022 [
access]
New research networks:
Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN) [
access]
*European Academic Refugee Interdisciplinary Network [
access]
Mixed Migration Network of Scholars (American Univ. in Cairo) [
access]
Refugee-led Research Hub [
access]
Research chairs will anchor knowledge on forced displacement in the Global South (IDRC, Dec. 2021) [
access]
- See also related
news story. Note: The research chairs that are currently in place include
Research Network on Ukrainian Migration (European Univ. Institute) [
access]
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