Ethical Considerations for Humanizing Refugee Research Trajectories

Daley, Patricia

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.40808

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“…After all, the overwhelming majority of the world's camp populations are found in, or hold citizenship of, formerly or currently colonised countries (as in Palestine). This circumstance reflects much wider geographies of exclusion, not least those that underpin “the racialized refugee regime” (Kyriakides et al, 2019; see also Daley, 2021; Mayblin, 2017).…”

Section: Methodological Positioning: the Coloniality Of Camps And Cam...mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Methodology, broadly defined, typically encompasses the philosophical and conceptual underpinnings of research, including the questions asked, the categories employed, the rationale for choosing specific methods (i.e., techniques of data generation), the modes of analysis and interpretation, and how all of it is presented, written, or otherwise shared with audiences. Questions of ethics and power are always key in these processes, not least given the power relations inherent in academic research and the wider uneven geographies in which scholars and their institutions are situated (Daley, 2021; Peake, 2017). As geographers we consider it especially important to reflect on how the particularities of place and power in varied locations shape our methodological choices and the possibilities of research.…”

Section: Camp Methodologies In Practicementioning

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Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

Weima

Brankamp

2022

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Camps and camp-like spaces have long sparked interest among geographers, sociologists, historians, architects, political scientists, and anthropologists alike. This scholarship has varyingly conceived of the camp as a modern technology of humanitarian aid and population management, a thanatopolitical institution, a site of protest and resistance, a metaphor of sovereign exclusion, or a means of colonial expansion, and more. However, comparatively few studies have explicitly focused on the methodologies of actually doing research in/on camps. The characteristics of camps, that make them of interest to researchers in the first place, generate methodological, ethical, and practical challenges for conducting research. Consequently, this special section contributes to an already multifaceted and growing body of camp studies literature by dwelling specifically on the "how" of studying camps. It does so by drawing on broader critical methodologies

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Section: Methodological Positioning: the Coloniality Of Camps And Cam...mentioning

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Section: Camp Methodologies In Practicementioning

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Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

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Brankamp

2022

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“…Beyond giving consent to have their photos taken, refugee participants should have ownership, opportunity to approve the use of specific photos and digital assets bearing their contextual identity. As discussed by Daley (2021), Bakewell (2021), many people displaced by war do not want to be known as refugees, for "refugee" to be a stereotype identity or label that stays with them for life; instead, they want to create new identities and leave the past behind. Other refugees may want the world at-large to know of their situations and status and want to participate in the crafting of prideful refugee identities and messaging.…”

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People First, Data Second: A Humanitarian Research Framework for Fieldwork with Refugees by War Zones

Fisher

2022

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War begets crises that are among the most urgent areas requiring help from the international HCI/CSCW community; yet too few scientists address it using context-based, participatory field methods and by engaging in country and regionally based, longitudinal partnerships. Drawing on the author's ongoing eight-year engagement as a design ethnographer with UNHCR Jordan and region for the Syrian War, this paper discusses Humanitarian Research as a framework for guiding HCI/CSCW research in conflict zones with displaced persons. Based on the principle of "People First, Data Second," Humanitarian Research is explained with illustrative examples along with the nature of war and UNHCR's protection mandate, the research challenges and ethical roles of HCI scientists in conflict zones and how these roles entwine with refugee stakeholders, NGOs, country actors, and university IRBs.

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“…Beyond typical institutional ethics reviews, a methodological approach to ethics considers how the underlying philosophies of a project (including research objectives and the terminology used) may also contribute to the long-term "production of harm" (Daley, 2021). This includes deliberation as to whether the aims and terminology of research serve policymakers' interests in the containment and exclusion of people deemed out-of-place.…”

Section: Boundaries Methodologies and Ethicsmentioning

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“…Although all human identities are relational and fluid (Massey, 2004), the refugee category is essentialised and concretised in order to manage people deemed out-of-place through dehumanising policies such as encampment (Daley, 2021). In reality, refugees living in camps shape and are shaped by relationships and places beyond camp boundaries.…”

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Ethically (un)bounding camp research: Life histories within and beyond camp boundaries

Weima

2021

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The changing enforcement and porosity of camp boundaries have implications for research in camps and their environs. Camp research is increasingly blurring their locational and categorical boundaries. However, in contexts where camp boundaries are being actively “hardened,” researchers must be attentive to possible effects of research across boundaries for those who are targeted by encampment. Research has an ethical imperative to challenge exclusionary boundaries and categories, recognising the many ways these constructed boundaries are already crossed and contested. It must also conscientiously negotiate and even defer to boundaries in research when participants may otherwise be at risk because of the underlying violence that maintains camps as discrete spatial technologies of power. In conducting life‐history research with Burundian refugees in Tanzania, I chose to “bound” my research with Burundian refugees to within camp boundaries, to reduce the risk to research participants. I argue that although research in camps may risk reifying camp boundaries, it can nevertheless conscientiously reach beyond and challenge camp boundaries through attentive methods. The stories recounted in this research reach far beyond camp boundaries, and include experiences of Burundian border‐crossers seeking liveable lives in diverse places and situations, not always of their own choosing. Life histories thus weave an imperfect, inchoate “minor cartography” of often‐invisibilised, diverse sites of refugee lives, bound up with the changing power and policing of camp boundaries shaping refugees' trajectories in the broader “campscape” over time.

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Ethical Considerations for Humanizing Refugee Research Trajectories

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

People First, Data Second: A Humanitarian Research Framework for Fieldwork with Refugees by War Zones

Ethically (un)bounding camp research: Life histories within and beyond camp boundaries

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