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The Right to ResearchHistorical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers |
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How historical scholarship can benefit from refugee voices as historians in their own right.
Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators. We often assume a person residing in a refugee camp, lacking funding, training, social networks, and other material resources that enable the research and writing of academic history, cannot be a historian because a historian cannot be a person residing in a refugee camp.
The Right to Research disrupts this tautology by featuring nine works by refugee and host-community researchers from across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Identifying the intrinsic challenges of making space for diverse voices within a research framework and infrastructure that is inherently unequal, this edited volume offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and perspectives to bear. Chapters address topics such as education in Kakuma Refugee Camp, the political power of hip-hop in Rwanda, women migrants to Yemen, and the development of photojournalism in Kurdistan.
Exploring what it means to become a researcher, The Right to Research understands historical scholarship as an ongoing conversation - one in which we all have a right to participate.
The Right to Research disrupts this tautology by featuring nine works by refugee and host-community researchers from across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Identifying the intrinsic challenges of making space for diverse voices within a research framework and infrastructure that is inherently unequal, this edited volume offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and perspectives to bear. Chapters address topics such as education in Kakuma Refugee Camp, the political power of hip-hop in Rwanda, women migrants to Yemen, and the development of photojournalism in Kurdistan.
Exploring what it means to become a researcher, The Right to Research understands historical scholarship as an ongoing conversation - one in which we all have a right to participate.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series (number 10 in series)
280 Pages, 6 x 9
22 photos
ISBN 9780228014553
January 2023
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“This ambitious and exciting volume makes a critical intervention in the processes of historical silencing and upsets conventional understandings of historical scholarship. The book reminds us that refugees have not been afforded the right to write history; this is a powerful, poignant, rightfully challenged assertion, and this assertion is timely - if not now, when?” Joanna Tague, Denison University and author of Displaced Mozambicans in Postcolonial Tanzania: Refugee Power, Mobility, Education, and Rural Development
Kate Reed is a graduate student in history at the University of Oxford.
Marcia C. Schenck is professor of global history at the University of Potsdam.
Marcia C. Schenck is professor of global history at the University of Potsdam.
Figures | vii
Preface: An Invitation | ix
Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck
Acknowledgments | xii
Introduction | 3
Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck
Part One: Crossing Borders: Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Experiences | 45
1 Fostering Education Services in Kakuma Refugee Camp | 47
Gerawork Teferra
2 Dangerous Crossings: East African Women Refugees and Migrants Flee Home for Opportunities in the Gulf States | 76
Muna Omar
3 Burundian Refugee Drummers: Practitioners of a Longstanding,Yet Ever-Changing, Tradition | 109
Aime Parfait Emerusenge
Part Two: Cultures in Motion: Continuity and Change in Displacement | 129
4 The Impacts of Displacement on Twa Culture and Tradition 131
Richesse Ndiritiro
5 On Hip-Hop and Mental Migration | 147
Alain Jules Hirwa
6 The Oral History of Local Photojournalism in Kurdistan | 160
Lazha Taha
Part Three: Identity and (Un)Belonging: Constructing and Deconstructing Social Identities | 181
7 “Traditional Healers Save Lives”: The Changing Relationship between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine in Rwanda | 183
Phocas Maniraguha
8 Until New Dawn … New Day: The Development of Gender Awareness across Generations in Syria | 200
Ismail Alkhateeb
9 The Impact of Migration on Intore Traditional Dance | 226
Sandrine Cyuzuzo Iribagiza
Conclusion | 237
Ismail Alkhateeb, Sandrine Cyzuzo Iribagiza, Aime Parfait Emerusenge, Alain Jules Hirwa, Phocas Maniraguha, Richesse Ndiritiro, Muna Omar, Marcia C. Schenck, Kate Reed, Lazha Taha, and Gerawork Teferra
Contributors | 247
Index | 251
Preface: An Invitation | ix
Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck
Acknowledgments | xii
Introduction | 3
Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck
Part One: Crossing Borders: Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Experiences | 45
1 Fostering Education Services in Kakuma Refugee Camp | 47
Gerawork Teferra
2 Dangerous Crossings: East African Women Refugees and Migrants Flee Home for Opportunities in the Gulf States | 76
Muna Omar
3 Burundian Refugee Drummers: Practitioners of a Longstanding,Yet Ever-Changing, Tradition | 109
Aime Parfait Emerusenge
Part Two: Cultures in Motion: Continuity and Change in Displacement | 129
4 The Impacts of Displacement on Twa Culture and Tradition 131
Richesse Ndiritiro
5 On Hip-Hop and Mental Migration | 147
Alain Jules Hirwa
6 The Oral History of Local Photojournalism in Kurdistan | 160
Lazha Taha
Part Three: Identity and (Un)Belonging: Constructing and Deconstructing Social Identities | 181
7 “Traditional Healers Save Lives”: The Changing Relationship between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine in Rwanda | 183
Phocas Maniraguha
8 Until New Dawn … New Day: The Development of Gender Awareness across Generations in Syria | 200
Ismail Alkhateeb
9 The Impact of Migration on Intore Traditional Dance | 226
Sandrine Cyuzuzo Iribagiza
Conclusion | 237
Ismail Alkhateeb, Sandrine Cyzuzo Iribagiza, Aime Parfait Emerusenge, Alain Jules Hirwa, Phocas Maniraguha, Richesse Ndiritiro, Muna Omar, Marcia C. Schenck, Kate Reed, Lazha Taha, and Gerawork Teferra
Contributors | 247
Index | 251
