#WE SPEAK: exploring the experience of refugee youth through participatory research and poetry

Norton, Lynn; Sliep, Yvonne

doi:10.1080/13676261.2018.1548758

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“…Data are becoming more varied in research with children and young people. Data can include written and digital formats (see Heron, 2018), puppet shows (see Mayes, 2016), models (see Clayson et al, 2018), Collages (see Marcu, 2016) and body movement, poetry and art (see Norton and Sliep, 2018).…”

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“…Groups of children and young people may have experienced trauma (as is the case for children and young people with experience of care, violence and seeking asylum). Innovative approaches to child participation are therefore foregrounding the well-being of children and young people (see Mayes, 2016;Marcu, 2016;Norton and Sliep, 2018) using reflexive epistemologies and therapeutic methods for dialogue.…”

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“…For example, methods currently used in psychotherapeutic contexts, are transferrable and valuable for working with vulnerable groups of children and young people in collaborative research processes. These methods were seen by Norton and Sliep (2018) as valuable in "allowing participants to reveal more about themselves in a manner that is not confrontational breaks down power and helps youth explore the meaning of their experiences" (p. 3).…”

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Next steps in children and young people’s research, participation and protection from the perspective of young researchers

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Evie³

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore young researchers perspectives on children and young people’s research, participation and protection. Design/methodology/approach The paper is co-authored by young people and academics involved in a young researcher group. This paper provides a brief introduction from the young researchers and some academic context to their work, then the young researcher group’s contribution. Their contribution is followed by a brief discussion of the issues they raise in the light of current academic debate. Findings This paper contains our critical reflection on participation and protection. Originality/value The paper presents a unique contribution capturing children and young people’s perspectives on the journal’s theme and other contributions to it.

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“…Examples include young people of colour feeling discouraged when confronted with the reality that they were less likely to be able to attend college, (Scott et al, 2015) and young urban women being negatively affected by learning how gentrification had impacted their lives (Cahill, 2004). Similarly, Norton and Sliep (2019) discuss how young refugees' feeling of hopelessness upon encountering xenophobia through a research project in South Africa was overcome through strong bonds with other youth researchers. Furthermore, in a New Zealand example, young people's attempt to present the findings of a youthparticipatory-photo-voice-project was blocked partly by the very exclusionary practices and attitudes that they sought to illuminate (Wood, 2016).…”

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Creating a Relational Participatory Space: Insights from a Youth Participatory Action Research Project

Davis-Rae¹

2021

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Since the ratification of Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, there has been a heightened focus on youth participation as a way of upholding young people’s right to have their say on decisions that affect them. However, programmes that attempt to engage young people in decision-making processes have often been poorly enacted and have failed to adequately address the barriers that limit young people’s ability to participate meaningfully and therefore rarely result in sustained change. This study examined processes with a youth participatory action research [YPAR] project in order to identify and explore processes and practices that might serve to sustain young people’s involvement and support authentic and meaningful participation. The research used an instrumental case study approach to examine an 18-month-long YPAR project operated through an existing youthwork programme. Data were collected through autoethnography, artefact analysis and participant interviews and reflections with youth participants. The study found that peer-to-peer and peer-to-leader relationships were foundational to youth participants’ ongoing involvement over the 18-month period. Such relationships appeared to drive much of the momentum of the action research and enable at times dynamic flows of power between youth participants and adults that encouraged an inter-generational space within the YPAR project. Young people stepped into leadership roles at different phases of the project while adult leaders managed the pace and progress of the project. The study identified five factors that helped to create this relational participatory space: reduced leader direction; valuing youth voice; openness of other participants, reworking adult-centric processes and the implementation of a variety of sharing activities. A number of factors that constrained youth voice were also identified. The study highlights how strong relationships were an integral part of the processes and practices of YPAR, rather than merely a positive outcome of participatory processes. These findings challenge traditional individualistic models of youth participation that frequently fail to acknowledge the importance of intergenerational and collective relationships within youth participatory action research projects. The study therefore calls for a heightened focus on relationship building within participatory processes both at a policy and practical level.

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“…Edwards (1986), writing on poetry in Afghanistan, argues that poetry is used to make explicit the relationship of the individuals to their past and present, guiding people to see their existence in relation to the social and temporal universe of which they are part. This form of expression is also employed in the narrative inquiry tradition where Vox Participare or "Found" poetry brings the participants, researcher, and readers close to data by expressing human experiences more vividly (Norton & Sliep, 2019).…”

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These are the stories of our physical activities: Decolonial re-existence and poetry

Mashreghi

2022

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In this paper, I aim to disseminate the knowledge that was generated during participatory art-based action research on which I collaborated with a group of young Afghan asylum seekers in Sweden. The focus of the research was the lived experiences of the youth in relation to sport and physical activity. I have chosen a narrative poem that I crafted using vox participare (voices of participants) (Norton & Sliep, 2019) to do this work. In this way, I have grounded the dissemination of our research in the shared epistemology of our peoples, the Khorasani peoples of central/western Asia. By adopting the persona of شاعر (the poet) (Olszewska, 2015), and by writing in a reflective manner that does not obscure my own privilege, I work towards decolonising the process of research and knowledge generation as it relates to sport. I attempt to show how Afghan youth re-make sport (and physical activity) in ways that re-create conditions of dignity for themselves and their community in their everyday living. In this way, I aim to disrupt the dominant understandings about what sport is, what it is supposed to do, and how it can be utilised by those who are living with social injustices.

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#WE SPEAK: exploring the experience of refugee youth through participatory research and poetry

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Next steps in children and young people’s research, participation and protection from the perspective of young researchers

Next steps in children and young people’s research, participation and protection from the perspective of young researchers

Creating a Relational Participatory Space: Insights from a Youth Participatory Action Research Project

These are the stories of our physical activities: Decolonial re-existence and poetry

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