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Social Science Emigration & Immigration

Documenting Displacement

Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research

edited by Katarzyna Grabska & Christina R. Clark-Kazak

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2022
Category
Emigration & Immigration, Immigration
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780228008330
    Publish Date
    Feb 2022
    List Price
    $39.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780228008323
    Publish Date
    Feb 2022
    List Price
    $140.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780228009504
    Publish Date
    Feb 2022
    List Price
    $39.95

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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.

About the authors

Katarzyna Grabska is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

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Christina R. Clark-Kazak is professor of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa, co-editor of Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research, and author of Recounting Migration: Political Narratives of Congolese Young People in Uganda.

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Editorial Reviews

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