What Does a Humane Infrastructure for Research Look Like

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ID11404199
AuthorsEstella Carpi (0000-0003-4537-0294, University College London, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume37
Issue2
Pages38-45
Publication date2021-11-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRefuge Canada s Journal on Refuge (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0229-5113 • E-ISSN: 1920-7336
PublisherYork University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.25071/1920-7336.40781
OpenAlexW3215144749
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited15

In this intervention I make two main suggestions to humanize refugee research. First, the tendency to select “research hotspots” as field sites—where researchers tend to approach the same interviewees and spaces—should not only be called out and avoided, but battled against. Second, I suggest that refugee research should collaborate directly with other studies of social, political, and economic phenomena in an effort to not make displacement the sine qua non condition for doing research but, instead, only one of the many conditions a human being can inhabit within receiving societies. Pursuing this aim will be easier when studies on forced migration do not become compartmentalized and develop in isolation from other disciplines and research groups

Displacement (psychology · Field (mathematics · Field research · Forced migration · Intervention (counseling · Isolation (microbiology · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Refugee · Sine qua non · Social science · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Law · Mathematics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology

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