Opportunities:
Webinar: Building Research Relationships and Setting the Agenda,
19 November 2021 [
info]
- Part of the LERRN-RRN Webinar Series on Ethics in Forced Migration Research.
CFP:
Forced Migration Review [
info]
- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Knowledge, voice and power." The
submission deadline is 15 February 2022.
Blog posts:
Decentring knowledge production (MIDEQ Blog, June 2021) [
text]
Ground-breaking perspectives on research and “the refugee experience” (Kaldor
Centre, Oct. 2021) [
text]
Research Ethics in Practice Amidst COVID-19: Overcoming Ethical Challenges in
Conducting Research with Internally Displaced Afro-Colombian Women in
Colombia (RLI Blog, June 2021) [
text]
Research terminology from the ‘Global North’ to the ‘Global South’:
Conceptualisations, interpretations and challenges from Hatay, Turkey
(Southern Responses to Displacement, June 2021) [
text]
Journal issues:
- Issue's theme focus is "Research and humanitarian aid: the challenges of a
collaboration/Recherche et humanitaire: les défis d'une collaboration."
Conflict and Health (May 2021) [
access]
- Follow link for special collection on "Lessons from the field: Confronting the challenges of health research in humanitarian crises," with 18 articles. The
introduction provides more information.
Global Networks, vol. 21, no. 3 (July 2021) [
contents]
- Special issue on "How qualitative Social Network analysis can offer new
opportunities in transnational migration research." Seven articles are open
access.
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (Sept. 2021) [
contents]
- Includes a special section on "Power in Forced Migration Research
Methods."
Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 9, no. 3 (Sept. 2021) [
full-text]
- Special issue on "New Demographic Directions in Forced Migrant and Refugee
Research." The "contributions to the special issue are based on five of the
presentations at a scientific workshop held in May 2019 in Washington, DC,
entitled, “
Forced Migration Research: From Theory to Practice in Promoting Migrant Well-Being.” A sixth article
evolved from a virtual stakeholder meeting held as a follow-up activity in
December 2020, entitled, “
Refugee Resettlement in the United States: The Role of Migration Research in Promoting Migrant Well-being in a
Post-Pandemic Era.”
Reports & journal articles:
Academic Trends in Forced Displacement, Paper prepared for UNHCR, 18 Nov. 2020 [
text]
"A chair at the table: a scoping review of the participation of refugees in
community-based participatory research in healthcare,"
Globalization and Health, 17: 103 (Sept. 2021) [
open access]
The “covidisation” of migration and health research: implications for
academia, policy and practice, Summary of Workshop #1 discussions, 24 March
2021 [
text]
"The ethics of ethnographic methods in conflict zones,"
Journal of Peace Research, vol. 58, no. 3 (2021) [
open access]
"Fund but disregard: the EU’s relationship to academic research on mobility,"
Crisis Magazine: Revisiting Europe's 'Migration Crisis', no. 2 (Dec.
2020) [
text]
*(Im)mobility in international research cooperation: knowledge and partnerships between the South and North, East and West, FFVT Project Note, no. 1 (Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Vernetzung und Transfer, Oct 2021) [
text]
"Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in
migration research,"
Comparative Migration Studies, 9:50 (Oct. 2021)
[
open access]
"Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability,"
International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 2 June 2021 [
postprint]
"Protecting Refugee Students’ Wellbeing After Research,"
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21 June 2021 [
open access]
- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.
*"Reflections of methodological and ethical challenges in conducting research during COVID-19 involving resettled refugee youth in Canada,"
Journal of Medical Ethics, OnlineFirst, 6 July 2021 [
free full-text]
"Research in Hard-to-Reach Populations: Challenges and Strategies for
Conducting Sexual Violence Studies in Applicants for International Protection
beyond the European General Data Protection Regulation,"
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, In Press, 19
Aug. 2021 [
open access]
"Research on the Move: Exploring WhatsApp as a Tool for Understanding the
Intersections between Migration, Mobility, Health and Gender in South Africa,"
Globalization and Health, 17:71 (July 2021) [
open access]
Multimedia:
Challenges of Ethnographic Fieldwork Within Migrant Communities, 14 Oct. 2021 [
access]
Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands, 12 May 2021 [
access]
Displacement and the Academy: emerging scholars with lived experience talk shop, 4 Oct. 2021 [
access]
*Knowledge mobilization: planning for impact in refugee research, Workshop at CARFMS21: Utopias as Practices: Refugee Protection and the Coming Futures, 27-29 Oct. 2021 [
access]
‘Localising’ Refugee Research and Practice Seminar Series [
access]
Localized Forced Displacement Research: Lessons from East Africa and the
Middle East, 9 June 2021 [
access]
A refugee-led study on refugee-led organisations in East Africa, 3 Nov. 2021 [
access]
*Types of Knowledge in Forced Migration: Whose Voices and Perspectives Frame Research?, 3 Nov. 2021 [
access]
Resources:
African Academy for Migration Research (AAMR) [
access]
- "The AAMR has two overarching aims: (1) to build the research capacity of the next generation of African migration scholars (2) to support the professional development of the next generation of African migration scholars." See the
launch announcement for more info.
Researching Internal Displacement [
access]
- A new platform that "connects researchers, practitioners, policy-makers,
students, artists and people from displacement-affected communities with
resources, events, cutting-edge research, analysis and creative materials on
internal displacement." Also a central hub for five linked international
research networks on internal displacement: Internal Displacement Research
Programme (IDRP); Global Engagement Network on Internal Displacement in
Africa (GENIDA); Middle East Research Network on Internal Displacement
(MERNID); Latin American Network on Internal Displacement (LANID); and the
Health and Internal Displacement Network (HIDN).
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