Doing Research with Refugees

Doing Research with Refugees
Author: Bogusia Temple
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 184742905X

Explores methodological issues relating to the involvement of refugees in service evaluation and development, building on a two-year seminar series funded by the ESRC and attended by a range of participants.

Arts-based Methods in Refugee Research

Arts-based Methods in Refugee Research
Author: Caroline Lenette
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Arts
ISBN: 9789811380099

Drawn from a decade of refugee studies, this book offers a wealth of insights on arts-based methodologies. It explores exciting new prospects for participatory and culturally safe research, and will be a reference resource for researchers of all levels and community practitioners. The book tackles questions of meaningful research practice: How do people with lived experiences of forced migration--Knowledge Holders--lead the way? Can arts-based methods bring about policy and social change? And what of ethical issues? By reflecting on the strengths and limitations of four research methods (digital storytelling, photography, community music, and participatory video), readers are invited to craft their own approach to arts-based projects.

Networked Refugees

Networked Refugees
Author: Nadya Hajj
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520383249

Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas? In Networked Refugees, Nadya Hajj finds that Palestinian refugees utilize information communication technology platforms to motivate reciprocity-a cooperative action marked by the mutual exchange of favors and services-and informally seek aid and connection with their transnational diaspora community. Based on surveys conducted with Palestinians throughout the diaspora, interviews with those inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon, and data pulled from online community spaces, these findings pushback against the cynical idea that online organizing is fruitless, emphasizing instead the productivity of these digital networks. "With nuance, sensitivity, and fascinating connections across diverse social settings, Nadya Hajj offers a blueprint for how transnational networks can motivate reciprocity to solve communal problems." WENDY PEARLMAN, author of Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement "In this remarkable book, Hajj deploys her considerable theoretical and empirical gifts. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding refugee experience." TAREK MASOUD, coauthor of The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform "Through stunning ethnographic and survey research, Hajj provides enormous insights into the way Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and the diaspora not only resist the destruction of their community but have found new ways of rebuilding it, challenging us to think differently about Palestinian refugees and their reimagined futures." SARA ROY, Harvard University.

Values and Vulnerabilities

Values and Vulnerabilities
Author: Karen Block
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Political refugees
ISBN: 9781922117137

CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 Ethics in Research With Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Processes, Power and Politics -- CHAPTER 2 Ethical Considerations in Refugee Research: What Guidance Do Formal Research Ethics Documents Offer? -- CHAPTER 3 To Respect or Protect? Whose Values Shape the Ethics of Refugee Research? -- CHAPTER 4 Researching Displacement(s) -- CHAPTER 5 The Ethical Implications of the Researcher's Dominant Position in Cross-Cultural Refugee Research

Palestinian Refugees

Palestinian Refugees
Author: Rex Brynen
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1552502317

The Palestinian refugee issue remains a central component of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This book explores the demographic and developmental challenges which the return of refugees to a future Palestinian state would generate.

Refugee States

Refugee States
Author: Vinh Nguyen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487508646

Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.

Refugees' Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace

Refugees' Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace
Author: Megan Bradley
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1626166757

How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persist for years if not decades. The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process led and controlled by governments and international organizations. This book takes a different approach. Through contributions from scholars working in politics, anthropology, law, sociology and philosophy, and a wide range of case studies, it explores the diverse ways in which refugees themselves interpret, create and pursue solutions to their plight. It investigates the empirical and normative significance of refugees’ engagement as agents in these processes, and their implications for research, policy and practice. This book speaks both to academic debates and to the broader community of peacebuilding, humanitarian and human rights scholars concerned with the nature and dynamics of agency in contentious political contexts, and identifies insights that can inform policy and practice.

Doing Cross-Cultural Research

Doing Cross-Cultural Research
Author: Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789048179121

Conducting cross-cultural research is rife with methodological, ethical and moral challenges. Researchers are challenged with many issues in carrying out their research with people in cross-cultural arenas. In this book, I attempt to bring together salient issues for the conduct of culturally appropriate research. The task of undertaking cross-cultural research can present researchers with unique opportunities, and yet dilemmas. The book will provide some thought-provoking points so that our research may proceed relatively well and yet ethical in our approach. The subject of the book is on the ethical, methodological, political understanding and practical procedures in undertaking cross-cultural research. The book will bring readers through a series of questions: who am I working with? What ethical and moral considerations do I need to observe? How should I conduct the research which is culturally appropriate to the needs of people I am researching? How do I deal with language issues? How will I negotiate access? And what research methods should I apply to ensure a successful research process? The book is intended for postgraduate students who are undertaking research as part of their degrees. It is also intended for researchers who are working in cross-cultural studies and in poor nations.

Refugee

Refugee
Author: Alan Gratz
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545880874

The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.

Refugee Economies

Refugee Economies
Author: Alexander Betts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198795688

This book explores the economic lives of refugees. It looks at what shapes the production, consumption, finance, and exchange activities of refugees, to explain variation in economic outcomes for refugees themselves.