Refugee Research Methodologies: Consolidation and Transformation of a Field

Voutira, Eftihia; Doná, Giorgia

doi:10.1093/jrs/fem017

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“…Research on refugees spans multiple fields of scholarship (Voutira and Doná 2007), resulting in varying definitions and overlapping concepts. Most fields apply the 1951 UN Convention definition of a refugee, as a person who has fled from the home country crossing international borders because of a well‐founded fear of persecution (Shiferaw and Hagos 2002), or the 1969 OAU Convention definition, which extends the inclusion criteria to those linked to ‘external aggression, occupation, foreign domination or events seriously disturbing public order’ (Arboleda 1991, p. 194).…”

Section: Refugees and Refugee Integration Terminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Lee

Szkudlarek

Nguyen

et al. 2020

Int J Management Reviews

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Increasing levels of displacement and the need to integrate refugees in the workforce pose new challenges to organizations and societies. Extant research on refugee employment and workforce integration currently resides across various disconnected disciplines, posing a significant challenge for management scholars to contribute to timely and relevant solutions. In this paper, we endeavour to address this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing multidisciplinary literature on refugee employment and workforce integration. Using a relational framework, we organize our findings around three levels of analysis -institutional, organizational and individual -to outline the complexity of factors affecting refugees' employment outcomes. Based on our analysis, we introduce and elaborate on the phenomenon of the canvas ceiling -a systemic, multilevel barrier to refugee workforce integration and professional advancement. The primary contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we map and integrate the multidisciplinary findings on the challenges of refugee workforce integration. Second, we provide management scholarship with a future research agenda to address the knowledge gap identified in this review and advance practical developments in this domain.

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Section: Refugees and Refugee Integration Terminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Lee

Szkudlarek

Nguyen

et al. 2020

Int J Management Reviews

109

126

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“…However, many refugees’ support organisations, acting as ‘gate keepers’, refused access to their ‘clients’. Difficulties in achieving participation in research of this group are widely reported, particularly in gaining initial access (Tishkov 1992, Harrell‐Bond & Voutira 2007, Voutira & Doná 2007).…”

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Exploring the potential of refugees and asylum seekers for social care work in England: a qualitative study

Hussein

Manthorpe

Stevens

2011

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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Literature highlights the potential for refugees to contribute to the labour force of receiving countries. Such a contribution may be welcomed in sectors, such as social care, where demand for labour is increasing and high vacancy rates exist. This article reports on empirical data examining the potential of refugee communities to work in social care in England. The analysis is based primarily on 20 interviews with refugees and asylum seekers and five representatives of refugee support groups, conducted in 2008-2009. The findings of this sub-study are set within results obtained from other interviews as part of a multi-methods study examining the contribution of migrants to the English care sector. In-depth interviews were analysed thematically, guided by a theoretical framework linking employment, migration and the nature of care work. The findings highlight a general willingness of refugee participants to join the care workforce. Individual and structural barriers to increased employability were identified, as well as possible strategies to overcome them. Although the findings and discussions presented are based on data collected in England and are specific to the care sector, most are more generalisable and may inform strategies aiming at maximising refugees' employability in other sectors and in other developed states.

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“…Приступи "одоздо", односно они који откривају "субјективни свет" активно делујућих субјеката, удаљавају се од идеје да људе посматрају као правно-политичке категорије. Квалитативни приступи "одоздо" користе методе етнографског истраживања, студије случаја, дубинских интервјуа и анализе наратива (Voutira & Doná 2007;Eastmond 2007;Korac 2009, 16;Chatty 2014, 74). Kада се наративи ставе у шири политички контекст, такав приступ може да буде изузетно плодоносан, зато што доводи људе, а не политике у центар истраживачких проблема и, истовремено, омогућава да разумемо како друштвене структуре утичу на саме људе.…”

Section: истраживачки проблеми основни теоријски концепти и методи сunclassified

Refugee studies or forced migration studies: Theoretical methodological review and consideration of multidisciplinarity in applied social sciences and humanities

Jovanovic¹

2019

Glas Etnogr inst

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Студије избеглиштва или студије принудних миграција: теоријско-методолошки осврт и разматрање мултидисциплинарности у примени друштвених и хуманистичких наука * Рад има за циљ да представи домаћој публици обједињени поглед на мултидисциплинарно поље истраживања познато као "студије избеглиштва" (refugee studies) или "студије присилних/принудних миграција" (forced migration studies), које је формално основано почетком 80-их година прошлог века. Показаћу да је научни проблем концептуалног разликовања "избеглиштва" и "принудних миграција" уткан у историју поља истраживања, али и у друштвено-политички контекст. Академско мултидисциплинарно поље о којем је реч није настало у теоријском вакууму, већ у спрези са међународним и хуманитарним поретком заштите избеглица. С тим у вези, мултидисциплинарост представља једну од стратегија за употребљивост научних увида у креирању или промени практичних политика. Студије избеглиштва, односно принудних миграција, утицале су на промене политика хуманитарних организација, али и обрнуто -појмовни апарат одређених организација и начин на који се управља миграцијама утицали су на научно промишљање феномена избеглиштва и принудних миграција.Кључне речи: избеглиштво, принудне миграције, мултидисциплинарност, практичне политике Refugee Studies or Forced Migration Studies: Theoreticalmethodological Review and Consideration of Multidisciplinarity in Applied Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis paper aims to present to domestic audience a comprehensive view of multidisciplinary research field known as "refugee studies" or "forced migration studies", which was formally founded in the early 1980s. I will show that the scientific problem of conceptual distinction between "refugee" and "forced migration" is embedded within the history of this research field, but also in the socio-political context. Academic multidisciplinary field considered in * Рад је настао у оквиру пројекта бр. 177027 Mултиeтницитeт, мултикултурaлнoст, мигрaциjе -сaврeмeни прoцeси Етнографског института САНУ, који финансира Министарство просвете, науке и технолошког развоја Републике Србије.

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Refugee Research Methodologies: Consolidation and Transformation of a Field

Cited by 42 publications

References 14 publications

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Exploring the potential of refugees and asylum seekers for social care work in England: a qualitative study

Refugee studies or forced migration studies: Theoretical methodological review and consideration of multidisciplinarity in applied social sciences and humanities

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