Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response

Colson, Elizabeth

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“…Research highlights that refugees may experience distrust towards those within and outside their refugee community (Cambridge & Williams, 2004;Colson, 2003); however, via e-mail the women were able to maintain contact with other refugees in the area without having to disclose personal addresses or telephone numbers. This was expressed by the tutor:…”

Section: Fostering Localised Support Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The internet, empowerment, and identity: an exploration of participation by refugee women in a Community Internet Project (CIP) in the United Kingdom (UK)

Siddiquee

Kagan

2006

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This article considers the relationship between the Internet, empowerment, identity and participation; and focuses on refugee women in the United Kingdom (UK) participating in a Community Internet Project (CIP) to learn Internet skills. Semi-structured interviews and a non-participant observation were conducted with six refugee women and the course tutor participating in the final session of the CIP. Thematic analysis of the interviews supplemented with findings from the observation, revealed outcomes associated with technological engagement and participation. Technological engagement outcomes included intermediate outcomes of maintaining links and re-building networks, and facilitating resettlement and integration; and empowerment and identity outcomes facilitating the maintenance and development of personal identities, and fostering psychological empowerment. Participation outcomes included the development of social identity and community narratives, and collective consciousness-raising. These findings are used to reflect on the theory of the social psychology of participation (Campbell & Jovchelovitch, 2000), by contextualising technological engagement within participatory processes. The article concludes by discussing individual agency within participation; and calls for further research into the utility of digital technologies in community participatory processes.

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Section: Fostering Localised Support Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The internet, empowerment, and identity: an exploration of participation by refugee women in a Community Internet Project (CIP) in the United Kingdom (UK)

Siddiquee

Kagan

2006

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Commentators have repeatedly outlined that there is no single theory of migration and that attempts to build an overarching theory for all migration is 'illusionary' (Richmond, 1994;King et al, 2008:48). Colson (2003) related the theme of trust to migration studies more broadly, suggesting that trust brings together work on immigration, labour migration and forced migration. Trust in migrant communities, she argued, rests on reciprocity and the expectation of a shared future.…”

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Trust and mistrust in the lives of forcibly displaced women and children

Hynes¹

2017

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Abstract:This paper aims to consider the experiences of displaced women and children throughout the experience of displacement and the issue of trust (or mistrust) throughout this journey towards future emplacement. Issues around trust and mistrust in conflict situations and considerations around interpersonal and broader based gender-based violence in politicised contexts are explored. Various stages of displacement are viewed and, through the use of examples, from experiences within refugee camps, reception in host countries and resettlement in countries of asylum insights into the lived experiences of displaced women and children are provided. This paper therefore draws upon research projects and practitioner experience, including research carried out within refugee camps, in the UK on the dispersal of asylum seekers, qualitative research into agency responses to the trafficking of children and young people, plus a scoping study involving qualitative research into non-statutory understandings of trafficking.

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“…The paper focuses on several premises about the eneral and specifi c characteristics of the Slavonski Brod transit camp, more specifi cally its distribution tent, which we will try to illustrate and explain. Followin in the footsteps of authors o erin a critical anthropolo ical refl ection of the role of refu ee camps in the political order, and of types of social, cultural and political life in them -such as Elizabeth Colson (2003), Michel A ier (2011), Adam Ramadan (2012), Simon Turner (2015) and others -we too will attempt to point at the specifi c characteristics of the Slavonski Brod camp, keepin in mind three re imes -the spatial, the temporal and the political.…”

Section: Camp: General and Specific Global And Localmentioning

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The Shopping Center of Abnormal Normality: Ethnography of the Distribution Tent in the Refugee Camp in Slavonski Brod

Škokić

Kirin

2017

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In a critical anthropolo ical approach, a refu ee camp is seen as a space of "humanitarian overnment" (A ier 2011), where it is primarily humanitarian or anizations, social services and police that cooperate, whereas refu ees are a "disquietin element" (A amben 1998), non-subjects whose free will, freedom of movement, speech and expression of their personality is reduced to a minimum. As ethno raphers and volunteers, we saw the transit camp in Slavonski Brod as an assemblage (Ramadan 2012) of space, time, practices and relationships that took place there, and whose dynamics was determined by le ally unclear procedures of "tria e" of refu ees/mi rants. The analysis focuses on the distribution tent which, despite bein monitored, turned out to be the only place of "freedom" in the sense of conversational interaction and time and space mana ement, both for refu ees and volunteers. The predominant activity in the distribution tent was donatin clothin and shoes to the refu ees, which made us ethnolo ically rethink clothes as a cultural artefact and the non-verbal lan ua e which the refu ees used to ne otiate their identity and symbolically express their past, present and future. In addition to a description of abnormal normality of the distribution "bazaar" or "shoppin center" as a lobally reco nizable genius loci, we also present autoethno raphic refl ections about the cultural, moral and emotional e ects of unexpected meetin s-events with the "un raspable face of the other" (Lévinas 1991), which questions our existential and historical experience.

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Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response

Cited by 118 publications

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The internet, empowerment, and identity: an exploration of participation by refugee women in a Community Internet Project (CIP) in the United Kingdom (UK)

The internet, empowerment, and identity: an exploration of participation by refugee women in a Community Internet Project (CIP) in the United Kingdom (UK)

Trust and mistrust in the lives of forcibly displaced women and children

The Shopping Center of Abnormal Normality: Ethnography of the Distribution Tent in the Refugee Camp in Slavonski Brod

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