The theme for this year's World Refugee Day is "solidarity with refugees." This post focuses on solidarity within the research context, i.e., the extent to which displaced persons are able to participate in the research and knowledge production process. Here is a round-up of recent short pieces, journal articles, book chapters and reports that were referenced on my blog over the last two years:
Short pieces:
Collaboration Between Academia and RLOs to Advance Refugee-led Advocacy (LERRN, Feb. 2024) [text]
Conducting Research “With” Not Only “About” Refugees (LERRN Blog, Nov. 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]
When displaced persons lead research: experience from East Africa (LERRN Blog, June 2024) [text]
Guidelines:
- "These Guidelines have been developed through an extensive collaborative process involving refugee leaders, academics, practitioners and policymakers from around the world" and are available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish. See also information about the consultation process.
Participation of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Research: Guidance for Researchers from Researchers (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2023) [text]
Journal articles:
"Always the Ideal? Exploring the Risks of Refugee Participation in Research," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 1 (2024) [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]
"Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 25 March 2024 [open access]
"Co-writing and inclusive publications," Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (June 2024) [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]
"Coproducing a film resource for asylum seekers in the UK—A field reflection," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 March 2024 [open access]
"Displaced Syrian academics: unheard voices in academia," Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (June 2024) [open access]
"Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods," Evidence & Policy: A journal of research, debate and practice, vol. 18, no. 2 (2022) [open access]
"Ethical considerations of 'going public': public and media co-dissemination of research findings with refugees," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 2 (2024) [open access]
"Exclusion from the conversation: reflections from Afghan refugees," Forced Migration Review, no. 70 (June 2024) [open access]
"From anecdote to evidence: researching RLOs in East Africa and the Middle East," Humanitarian Exchange, no. 83 (July 2023) [full-text]
"Laying the groundwork for participatory research with a Rohingya refugee community," Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 28, no. 3 (2022) [postprint]
"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]
"NGO-academia research co-production in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges," Disasters, vol. 47, no. 2 (April 2023) [open access]
"Participatory approaches and methods in gender equality and gender-based violence research with refugees and internally displaced populations: a scoping review," Conflict and Health, 17:58 (Dec. 2023) [open access]
"Standard Involvement is Not Enough: A Mixed Method Study of Enablers and Barriers in Research Meetings with Forced Migrants," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2024) [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, vol. 49, no. 2 (2024) [open access]
"What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research?: Reflections on a Participatory Project with Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 13 July 2023 [open access]
Reports & book chapters:
“Co-investigators but with different power”: Local voices on the localization of humanitarian research (Tufts Univ., Feb. 2023) [text]
Co-production of Knowledge in Forced Migration Studies: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Challenges and the Possibilities for the Emergence of Best Practices, LERRN Working Paper, no. 21 (Carleton Univ., Jan. 2024) [text]
Exploring the value and replicability of integrating refugees and host community members into research activities in refugee settings (Population Council, Feb. 2024) [text]
Making the Results of Humanitarian Evaluation Accessible to Communities: Why it frequently fails and what to do about it (Humanitarian Advisory Group, April 2024) [text]
"Participatory research among youth – too little, too much, too romanticised? Reflections on co-research with young refugees," Chapter in Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society: Reclaiming the Future (Routledge, June 2023) [open access]
- 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." Note: While this is not an open access book, the text has been made freely available to a specific group of readers via the Carleton University institutional repository. See this blog post for more information.
Resource:
- "Aims to support scholars and researchers from displaced communities, predominantly in Eastern Africa, to be leaders in knowledge production and decision making in the field of Forced Migration Studies and humanitarian research." The Hub includes "a global network of affiliated scholars and researchers who participate in activities as staff, mentors, research leads, and learners." Follow the "website" link to access their reports.
