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Documenting DisplacementQuestioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research |
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A timely assessment of the ways in which knowledge is co-created in spaces of displacement, and how it is reproduced through narratives.
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power between researchers and research participants. This project critically assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created and reproduced through narratives in spaces of displacement, advancing a creative, collective, and interdisciplinary approach.
Documenting Displacement explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers.
Innovative in its use of arts-based methods, Documenting Displacement invites researchers to explore new avenues guided not only by the procedural ethics imposed by academic institutions, but also by a relational ethics that more fully considers the position of the researcher and the interests of those who have been displaced.
Documenting Displacement explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers.
Innovative in its use of arts-based methods, Documenting Displacement invites researchers to explore new avenues guided not only by the procedural ethics imposed by academic institutions, but also by a relational ethics that more fully considers the position of the researcher and the interests of those who have been displaced.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series (number 8 in series)
424 Pages, 6 x 9
22 photos, 6 diagrams, 2 tables
ISBN 9780228008330
February 2022
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“Documenting Displacement advances and challenges our thinking and approach to conducting ethically sound research with people on the move. It effectively questions our more traditional research tools and approaches while providing guidance in how to explore alternatives.” Susan McGrath, York University
Katarzyna Grabska is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
Christina R. Clark-Kazak is associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
Christina R. Clark-Kazak is associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
Figures and Tables xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Documenting Displacement beyond Methodological and Ethical Boundaries 3
Christina R. Clark-Kazak and Katarzyna (Kasia) Grabska
SECTION ONE Ethics, Power, and Knowledge 23
Christina R. Clark-Kazak
1 Ethical Challenges of Conducting Longitudinal Community-Based
Research with Refugees: Reflections from Peer Researchers 29
Anna Oda, Adnan Al Mhamied, Riham Al-Saadi, Neil Arya,Mona Awwad, Oula Hajjar, Jill Hanley, Michaela Hynie, Nicole Ives,Rabih Jamil, Mahi Khalaf, Rim Khyar, Ben C.H. Kuo, May Massijeh, Rana Mohammad, and Kathy Sherrell
2 Critical Reflexivity and Decolonizing Narrative: Reflections from the Field 56
Dina Taha
3 Exhibiting Displacement: Refugee Art, Methodological Dubiety,and the Responsibility (Not) to Document Loss 81
Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou and Fiona Murphy
4 Ethical and Methodological Issues When Conducting Research with Children in Situations of Forced Migration 104
Jason Hart
5 Modalities of Knowing in Difficult Circumstances: Methodological and Ethical Parameters of Engagement with Southern/South Sudanese Residing in the Capital of Sudan 122
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
SECTION TWO Reimagining Displacement Research through Creative Collaborative Methodologies 149
Christina R. Clark-Kazak
6 Sound and Memory: Collaborative Reflection on Using Sound Postcards in Rebuilding Social Fabric with Victims of Forced Displacement in Colombia 153
Andrea Rodríguez-Sánchez and Miguel Alonso-Cambrón
7 Transient Lives and Lasting Messages: Graffiti Analysis as a Methodological Tool to Capture Migrants’ Experiences While on the Move 173
Océane Uzureau, Marina Rota, Ine Lietaert, and Ilse Derluyn
8 In Whose Voice? And for Whom? Collaborative Filming and Narratives of Forced Migration 201
Katarzyna Grabska
9 Methodological and Ethical Reflections on the Displaces Participatory Photographic Project in the “Calais Jungle” 224
Marie Godin and Giorgia Donà
10 Memories, Stories, and Material Traces: Exploring Displacement through Collaging and Participatory Art Installation 250
Nihal Soğancı
SECTION THREE Crossing Methodological and Disciplinary Boundaries 275
Christina R. Clark-Kazak
11 Opportunities and Challenges of Using Computer-Based Simulation in Migration and Displacement Research: A focus on Lesbos, Greece 279
Erika Frydenlund and Jose J. Padilla
12 Overcoming Over-Research: The mmp Approach 309
Susan Banki and Nicole Phillips
13 Life Story Narratives, Memory Maps, and Video Stories: Spatial Narratives of Urban Displacement in Sri Lanka 338
Shashini Gamage and Danesh Jayatilaka
14 The Worn Words Project: Narrative Mobilization, Refugee Discourse, and Digital Media Production 361
Erin Goheen Glanville
Contributors 387
Index 399
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Documenting Displacement beyond Methodological and Ethical Boundaries 3
Christina R. Clark-Kazak and Katarzyna (Kasia) Grabska
SECTION ONE Ethics, Power, and Knowledge 23
Christina R. Clark-Kazak
1 Ethical Challenges of Conducting Longitudinal Community-Based
Research with Refugees: Reflections from Peer Researchers 29
Anna Oda, Adnan Al Mhamied, Riham Al-Saadi, Neil Arya,Mona Awwad, Oula Hajjar, Jill Hanley, Michaela Hynie, Nicole Ives,Rabih Jamil, Mahi Khalaf, Rim Khyar, Ben C.H. Kuo, May Massijeh, Rana Mohammad, and Kathy Sherrell
2 Critical Reflexivity and Decolonizing Narrative: Reflections from the Field 56
Dina Taha
3 Exhibiting Displacement: Refugee Art, Methodological Dubiety,and the Responsibility (Not) to Document Loss 81
Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou and Fiona Murphy
4 Ethical and Methodological Issues When Conducting Research with Children in Situations of Forced Migration 104
Jason Hart
5 Modalities of Knowing in Difficult Circumstances: Methodological and Ethical Parameters of Engagement with Southern/South Sudanese Residing in the Capital of Sudan 122
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
SECTION TWO Reimagining Displacement Research through Creative Collaborative Methodologies 149
Christina R. Clark-Kazak
6 Sound and Memory: Collaborative Reflection on Using Sound Postcards in Rebuilding Social Fabric with Victims of Forced Displacement in Colombia 153
Andrea Rodríguez-Sánchez and Miguel Alonso-Cambrón
7 Transient Lives and Lasting Messages: Graffiti Analysis as a Methodological Tool to Capture Migrants’ Experiences While on the Move 173
Océane Uzureau, Marina Rota, Ine Lietaert, and Ilse Derluyn
8 In Whose Voice? And for Whom? Collaborative Filming and Narratives of Forced Migration 201
Katarzyna Grabska
9 Methodological and Ethical Reflections on the Displaces Participatory Photographic Project in the “Calais Jungle” 224
Marie Godin and Giorgia Donà
10 Memories, Stories, and Material Traces: Exploring Displacement through Collaging and Participatory Art Installation 250
Nihal Soğancı
SECTION THREE Crossing Methodological and Disciplinary Boundaries 275
Christina R. Clark-Kazak
11 Opportunities and Challenges of Using Computer-Based Simulation in Migration and Displacement Research: A focus on Lesbos, Greece 279
Erika Frydenlund and Jose J. Padilla
12 Overcoming Over-Research: The mmp Approach 309
Susan Banki and Nicole Phillips
13 Life Story Narratives, Memory Maps, and Video Stories: Spatial Narratives of Urban Displacement in Sri Lanka 338
Shashini Gamage and Danesh Jayatilaka
14 The Worn Words Project: Narrative Mobilization, Refugee Discourse, and Digital Media Production 361
Erin Goheen Glanville
Contributors 387
Index 399
