Christina Clark‐kazak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4508231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Clark‐kazak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark‐kazak |
| SIGNATURE | KAZAK C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6176-0674 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Feminist methodologies in migration research
In the context of a methodological turn in migration studies since the early 2000s, this commentary focuses on three key contributions of feminist methodologies in migration research over the past two decades. This is not to suggest that feminist methodologies are “new,” or that some of these methodological orientations were not present in earlier work, but rather to highlight methodologies rooted in feminist praxis that have become more prevalen…
Why Care Now” in Forced Migration Research: Imagining a Radical Feminist Ethics of Care
This article lays out the ethical, epistemological, and methodological reasons for radical care ethics in research in forced migration. Drawing on a growing body of literature and recent initiatives to codify ethics in forced migration studies, it highlights the transformational potential of a radical feminist care approach to the “ethical turn” in the field. I suggest that radical care ethics re-centers reciprocal human relationships in forced m…
Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research
This project explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Contributors reflect honestly on both what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers
Celebrating 40 Years: Reflections on Refuge: 2012-2018
Editorial
Ethics in Forced Migration Research: Taking Stock and Potential Ways Forward
Migration research poses particular ethical challenges because of legal precarity, the criminalization and politicization of migration, and power asymmetries. This paper analyzes these challenges in relation to the ethical principles of voluntary, informed consent; protection of personal information; and minimizing harm. It shows how migration researchers - including those outside of academia - have attempted to address these ethical issues in th…
Introduction: Special Issue on Private Sponsorship in Canada
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Considérations en matière d’éthique de la recherche auprès de personnes en situation de migration forcée
La recherche peut contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de l’expérience des personnes en situation de migration forcée et appuyer ainsi l’élaboration de politiques et de programmes pertinents; toutefois cette recherche peut aussi contraindre et causer des préjudices pour les répondants[1] à la recherche. Dans les situations de migration forcée, les enjeux sont considérables en raison du statut juridique précaire des répondants, des relations d…
Ethical Considerations: Research with People in Situations of Forced Migration
Research can contribute to better understanding of the forced migration experience to inform policy and programming, but it can also cause inconvenience and harm to research respondents.[1] In situations of forced migration, the stakes are particularly high because of precarious legal status, unequal power relations, far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation, and the criminalization of migration. In response, the Canadian Council for Refugees, York…
Teaching forced migration: Pedagogy in the context of global displacement crises
Special Focus on Age Discrimination in Forced Migration Law, Policy, and Practice
This special focus of Refuge highlights the widespread but under researched occurrence of age discrimination in forced migration law, policy, and practice. Using a conceptual lens of social age, authors analyze the ways in which people in situations of forced migration are treated differently on the basis of chronological age, biological development, and family status. By framing this differential treatment as discrimination, this special focus a…
Values and Vulnerabilities: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Edited by Karen Block, Elisha Riggs, and Nick Haslam
This book is a welcome addition to an emerging discussion about specific ethical issues related to undertaking research with refugees and asylum seekers, particularly in light of a recent review of the literature on methodology and production of knowledge in forced migration contexts undertaken by the Refugee Research Network, which highlighted the dearth of migration-specific methodological literature. In 11 chapters by authors from different di…
Theorizing Age and Generation in Migration Contexts: Towards Social Age Mainstreaming
This paper proposes social age as an analytical framework within which to understand and respond to age and generation in migration contexts. It argues that comprehensive social age analysis can lead to greater age sensitivity in migration research, policy and programming. As such, this introduction situates the empirical studies in the special issue and draws on them to test, challenge and inform the social age analytical framework. Le cadre ana…
Conclusions, reflections, and prospects for future research, policy, and programming
This concluding chapter draws together some of the key themes from the contributions and proposes some recommended areas for future research, policy, and programming. It highlights the artificiality of categorization processes related to both migration and childhood that independent child migrants encounter, and problematizes the vulnerability-agency binary. The author encourages more research into how power relations, relationships, and networks…
The Politics of Formal Schooling in Refugee Contexts: Education, Class, and Decision Making among Congolese in Uganda
Based on ethnographic research with over four hundred Congolese refugees in Kampala and Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda, this article interrogates the politics of education—both historically in the Democratic Republic of Congo and currently in migration contexts in Uganda. Formal education was an aspiration for all young people in the study, irrespective of current educational level. Moreover, it is a priority for the United Nations High Comm…
Recounting Migration: Political Narratives of Congolese Young People in Uganda
Millions of citizens from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been killed or displaced during decades of political corruption and military conflict. Many forced migrants are young people, who are often seen either as passive victims or as radicalized and amoral child soldiers perpetuating the cycle of violence. Recounting Migration refutes these stereotypes by presenting young Congolese refugees' nuanced understanding of the complex power…
The politics of protection: Aid, human rights discourse, and power relations in Kyaka II settlement, Uganda
This paper explores the conceptualisation and application of 'protection' by the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR), Ugandan government, and Congolese refugees in Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda. Analysing the origins and consequences of a demonstration against school fees, and drawing on other ethnographic data, it explores how different interpretations of this incident reflect different conceptions of, and approaches to, protection. U…
Towards a Working Definition and Application of Social Age in International Development Studies
An emerging body of literature in childhood studies addresses the socially constructed nature of age that varies across time and place. However, despite the robustness of existing theory, few practitioners working in development contexts, where children and young people make up a large percentage of the population, consistently distinguish between biological facts of human development and the social meanings ascribed to different stages in the li…
Power and politics in migration narrative methodology: Research with young Congolese migrants in Uganda
This paper explores the power dynamics inherent in qualitative research involving migration narratives. Drawing on the author’s experiences collecting life histories and constructing narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda, this article addresses the ethical and methodological issues of representivity, ownership, anonymity and confidentiality. It also explores the importance of investment in relationships in migration narrative research, b…
Representing Refugees in the Life Cycle: A Social Age Analysis of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Annual Reports and Appeals 1999-2008
This paper provides a longitudinal quantitative and qualitative analysis of textual and visual references to age in UNHCR's annual appeals and reports published from 1999 to 2008. In contrast to an assumed over-representation of children in refugee imagery, this study reveals that adults are present in the greatest number of photographs across the time period studied. However, children, particularly girls, are mentioned much more frequently than …
Ethical Considerations: Research with People in Situations of Forced Migration
Research can contribute to better understanding of the forced migration experience to inform policy and programming, but it can also cause inconvenience and harm to research respondents.[1] In situations of forced migration, the stakes are particularly high because of precarious legal status, unequal power relations, far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation, and the criminalization of migration. In response, the Canadian Council for Refugees, York…
Ethics in Forced Migration Research: Taking Stock and Potential Ways Forward
Migration research poses particular ethical challenges because of legal precarity, the criminalization and politicization of migration, and power asymmetries. This paper analyzes these challenges in relation to the ethical principles of voluntary, informed consent; protection of personal information; and minimizing harm. It shows how migration researchers - including those outside of academia - have attempted to address these ethical issues in th…
Why Care Now” in Forced Migration Research: Imagining a Radical Feminist Ethics of Care
This article lays out the ethical, epistemological, and methodological reasons for radical care ethics in research in forced migration. Drawing on a growing body of literature and recent initiatives to codify ethics in forced migration studies, it highlights the transformational potential of a radical feminist care approach to the “ethical turn” in the field. I suggest that radical care ethics re-centers reciprocal human relationships in forced m…
Theorizing Age and Generation in Migration Contexts: Towards Social Age Mainstreaming
This paper proposes social age as an analytical framework within which to understand and respond to age and generation in migration contexts. It argues that comprehensive social age analysis can lead to greater age sensitivity in migration research, policy and programming. As such, this introduction situates the empirical studies in the special issue and draws on them to test, challenge and inform the social age analytical framework. Le cadre ana…
Representing Refugees in the Life Cycle: A Social Age Analysis of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Annual Reports and Appeals 1999-2008
This paper provides a longitudinal quantitative and qualitative analysis of textual and visual references to age in UNHCR's annual appeals and reports published from 1999 to 2008. In contrast to an assumed over-representation of children in refugee imagery, this study reveals that adults are present in the greatest number of photographs across the time period studied. However, children, particularly girls, are mentioned much more frequently than …
The politics of protection: Aid, human rights discourse, and power relations in Kyaka II settlement, Uganda
This paper explores the conceptualisation and application of 'protection' by the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR), Ugandan government, and Congolese refugees in Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda. Analysing the origins and consequences of a demonstration against school fees, and drawing on other ethnographic data, it explores how different interpretations of this incident reflect different conceptions of, and approaches to, protection. U…
Introduction: Special Issue on Private Sponsorship in Canada
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Celebrating 40 Years: Reflections on Refuge: 2012-2018
Editorial
Special Issue: Private Sponsorship in Canada
sur les rfugis soit cite
Teaching forced migration: Pedagogy in the context of global displacement crises
Special Focus on Age Discrimination in Forced Migration Law, Policy, and Practice
This special focus of Refuge highlights the widespread but under researched occurrence of age discrimination in forced migration law, policy, and practice. Using a conceptual lens of social age, authors analyze the ways in which people in situations of forced migration are treated differently on the basis of chronological age, biological development, and family status. By framing this differential treatment as discrimination, this special focus a…
Towards a Working Definition and Application of Social Age in International Development Studies
An emerging body of literature in childhood studies addresses the socially constructed nature of age that varies across time and place. However, despite the robustness of existing theory, few practitioners working in development contexts, where children and young people make up a large percentage of the population, consistently distinguish between biological facts of human development and the social meanings ascribed to different stages in the li…
Power and politics in migration narrative methodology: Research with young Congolese migrants in Uganda
This paper explores the power dynamics inherent in qualitative research involving migration narratives. Drawing on the author’s experiences collecting life histories and constructing narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda, this article addresses the ethical and methodological issues of representivity, ownership, anonymity and confidentiality. It also explores the importance of investment in relationships in migration narrative research, b…
Representing Refugees in the Life Cycle: A Social Age Analysis of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Annual Reports and Appeals 1999-2008
This paper provides a longitudinal quantitative and qualitative analysis of textual and visual references to age in UNHCR's annual appeals and reports published from 1999 to 2008. In contrast to an assumed over-representation of children in refugee imagery, this study reveals that adults are present in the greatest number of photographs across the time period studied. However, children, particularly girls, are mentioned much more frequently than …
The politics of protection: Aid, human rights discourse, and power relations in Kyaka II settlement, Uganda
This paper explores the conceptualisation and application of 'protection' by the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR), Ugandan government, and Congolese refugees in Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda. Analysing the origins and consequences of a demonstration against school fees, and drawing on other ethnographic data, it explores how different interpretations of this incident reflect different conceptions of, and approaches to, protection. U…
Recounting Migration: Political Narratives of Congolese Young People in Uganda
Millions of citizens from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been killed or displaced during decades of political corruption and military conflict. Many forced migrants are young people, who are often seen either as passive victims or as radicalized and amoral child soldiers perpetuating the cycle of violence. Recounting Migration refutes these stereotypes by presenting young Congolese refugees' nuanced understanding of the complex power…
Conclusions, reflections, and prospects for future research, policy, and programming
This concluding chapter draws together some of the key themes from the contributions and proposes some recommended areas for future research, policy, and programming. It highlights the artificiality of categorization processes related to both migration and childhood that independent child migrants encounter, and problematizes the vulnerability-agency binary. The author encourages more research into how power relations, relationships, and networks…
The Politics of Formal Schooling in Refugee Contexts: Education, Class, and Decision Making among Congolese in Uganda
Based on ethnographic research with over four hundred Congolese refugees in Kampala and Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda, this article interrogates the politics of education—both historically in the Democratic Republic of Congo and currently in migration contexts in Uganda. Formal education was an aspiration for all young people in the study, irrespective of current educational level. Moreover, it is a priority for the United Nations High Comm…
Theorizing Age and Generation in Migration Contexts: Towards Social Age Mainstreaming
This paper proposes social age as an analytical framework within which to understand and respond to age and generation in migration contexts. It argues that comprehensive social age analysis can lead to greater age sensitivity in migration research, policy and programming. As such, this introduction situates the empirical studies in the special issue and draws on them to test, challenge and inform the social age analytical framework. Le cadre ana…
Values and Vulnerabilities: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Edited by Karen Block, Elisha Riggs, and Nick Haslam
This book is a welcome addition to an emerging discussion about specific ethical issues related to undertaking research with refugees and asylum seekers, particularly in light of a recent review of the literature on methodology and production of knowledge in forced migration contexts undertaken by the Refugee Research Network, which highlighted the dearth of migration-specific methodological literature. In 11 chapters by authors from different di…
Teaching forced migration: Pedagogy in the context of global displacement crises
Special Focus on Age Discrimination in Forced Migration Law, Policy, and Practice
This special focus of Refuge highlights the widespread but under researched occurrence of age discrimination in forced migration law, policy, and practice. Using a conceptual lens of social age, authors analyze the ways in which people in situations of forced migration are treated differently on the basis of chronological age, biological development, and family status. By framing this differential treatment as discrimination, this special focus a…
Considérations en matière d’éthique de la recherche auprès de personnes en situation de migration forcée
La recherche peut contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de l’expérience des personnes en situation de migration forcée et appuyer ainsi l’élaboration de politiques et de programmes pertinents; toutefois cette recherche peut aussi contraindre et causer des préjudices pour les répondants[1] à la recherche. Dans les situations de migration forcée, les enjeux sont considérables en raison du statut juridique précaire des répondants, des relations d…
Ethical Considerations: Research with People in Situations of Forced Migration
Research can contribute to better understanding of the forced migration experience to inform policy and programming, but it can also cause inconvenience and harm to research respondents.[1] In situations of forced migration, the stakes are particularly high because of precarious legal status, unequal power relations, far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation, and the criminalization of migration. In response, the Canadian Council for Refugees, York…
Introduction: Special Issue on Private Sponsorship in Canada
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Special Issue: Private Sponsorship in Canada
sur les rfugis soit cite
Ethics in Forced Migration Research: Taking Stock and Potential Ways Forward
Migration research poses particular ethical challenges because of legal precarity, the criminalization and politicization of migration, and power asymmetries. This paper analyzes these challenges in relation to the ethical principles of voluntary, informed consent; protection of personal information; and minimizing harm. It shows how migration researchers - including those outside of academia - have attempted to address these ethical issues in th…
Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research
This project explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Contributors reflect honestly on both what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers
Celebrating 40 Years: Reflections on Refuge: 2012-2018
Editorial
Why Care Now” in Forced Migration Research: Imagining a Radical Feminist Ethics of Care
This article lays out the ethical, epistemological, and methodological reasons for radical care ethics in research in forced migration. Drawing on a growing body of literature and recent initiatives to codify ethics in forced migration studies, it highlights the transformational potential of a radical feminist care approach to the “ethical turn” in the field. I suggest that radical care ethics re-centers reciprocal human relationships in forced m…
Feminist methodologies in migration research
In the context of a methodological turn in migration studies since the early 2000s, this commentary focuses on three key contributions of feminist methodologies in migration research over the past two decades. This is not to suggest that feminist methodologies are “new,” or that some of these methodological orientations were not present in earlier work, but rather to highlight methodologies rooted in feminist praxis that have become more prevalen…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Power (physics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)