Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and photographs
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- one Introduction
- two Refugees as researchers: experiences from the project ‘Bridges and fences: paths to refugee integration in the EU’
- three Limited exchanges: approaches to involving people who do not speak English in research and service development
- four Breaking the silence: participatory research processes about health with Somali refugee people seeking asylum
- five Home/lessness as an indicator of integration: interviewing refugees about the meaning of home and accommodation
- six The community leader, the politician and the policeman: a personal perspective
- seven Complexity and community empowerment in regeneration, 2002-04
- eight Refugee voices as evidence in policy and practice
- nine Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees
- ten Why religion matters
- eleven Action learning: a research approach that helped me to rediscover my integrity
- Appendix Guidelines funded through the Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series ‘Eliciting the views of refugee people seeking asylum’
- Index
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and photographs
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- one Introduction
- two Refugees as researchers: experiences from the project ‘Bridges and fences: paths to refugee integration in the EU’
- three Limited exchanges: approaches to involving people who do not speak English in research and service development
- four Breaking the silence: participatory research processes about health with Somali refugee people seeking asylum
- five Home/lessness as an indicator of integration: interviewing refugees about the meaning of home and accommodation
- six The community leader, the politician and the policeman: a personal perspective
- seven Complexity and community empowerment in regeneration, 2002-04
- eight Refugee voices as evidence in policy and practice
- nine Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees
- ten Why religion matters
- eleven Action learning: a research approach that helped me to rediscover my integrity
- Appendix Guidelines funded through the Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series ‘Eliciting the views of refugee people seeking asylum’
- Index
Summary
In what ways does research benefit from the involvement of refugees? Can research also be empowerment? These key questions are raised by this provocative collection of essays. Here is a book about refugee people, including those seeking asylum, as agents. Their participation in the research processes which inform the policies that shape their lives is seen as vital to the success both of the research and the ensuing social action.
The chapters in this book are the product of an initiative by RAPAR (Refugee and Asylum Seeker Participatory Action Research), which resulted in an ESRC Seminar Series. They are shot through with first-hand experience of the predicament of refugees. They demonstrate, through a series of case studies and theoretical contributions, that engagement with the methodological issue of giving ‘voice’ to refugees within the research process has benefits at various levels. It produces better research and it develops the skills and confidence of the refugees themselves.
These essays also show, sadly, that such empowerment is a threat to established ways of doing things. This is a pioneering collection that explores a new, and to some, disconcerting, direction in research. No one engaged in research with refugees can afford to ignore the questions it raises.
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- Doing Research with RefugeesIssues and Guidelines, pp. viiiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2006