refugee studies

Researching refugees: Some methodological and ethical considerations in social science and forced migration

Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 15:23

Social scientists doing fieldwork in humanitarian situations face a dual imperative: research should be both academically sound and policy relevant. We argue that much of the current research on forced migration is based on unsound methodology, and that the data and subsequent policy conclusions are often flawed and/or ethically suspect. The paper identifies some key methodological and ethical problems confronting social scientists studying forced migrants or their hosts.

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social sciences

refugee studies

Forced Migration Studies Programme

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Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration (1-15 December 2010)

Language English

New journal issue: FMR 34 with feature on urban displacement is now onine

Deadine / Event Date:

2010/03/01 (All day)

The English edition of FMR 34, with a major feature on Urban
displacement, is now online at http://www.fmreview.org/urban-displacement/

In their introductory articles in the feature section, UN High
Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and UN-HABITAT Executive
Director Anna Tibaijuka emphasise the complexity of the challenges faced
by those displaced into urban areas and by those seeking to protect and
assist them, and argue for the need for a radical rethinking of

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International Summer School in Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

Deadine / Event Date:

2010/07/05 (All day)

Applications are invited for this year’s International Summer School in Forced Migration, to be held at Wadham College, Oxford. The Summer School, now in its 21^st year,offers an intensive, interdisciplinary and participative approach to the study of forced migration. It aims to enable people working with refugees and other forced migrants to examine critically the forces and institutions that dominate the world of the displaced.

summer.school@qeh.ox.ac.uk

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refugee studies

summer course

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Course/Certificate

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United Kingdom

Oxford

CARFMS2010: FORCED MIGRATION: CHALLENGES AND CHANGE

Deadine / Event Date:

2010/05/06 (All day)

3rd Annual Conference of the
Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS)

Hosted by the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition

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Geographical Locations:

Canada

CFP: (Un) Routed Identities: Borders, Boundaries, and Betweens

Deadine / Event Date:

2010/01/15 (All day)

The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is pleased to announce that the Annual Student Conference will take place on April 8^th and 9^that York University, Toronto, Canada. This event offers Graduate and Undergraduate Students across disciplines and those with a keen interest in migration and refugee issues the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students, academics, professional, frontline practitioners, researchers and all those interested in forced migration issues.

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Canada

Bobby Thomas Cameron

Given Name:

Bobby Thomas

Surname:

Cameron

Language English

Job Title:

Other

Discipline:

Public Policy / Refugee Studies

Institution(s):

Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS)

Education:

PhD (2015): Policy Studies (Immigration field). Ryerson University, Toronto

MA (2010): Public Policy and Administration. Ryerson University, Toronto. Major Research Paper: "Asylum policy in the European Union: an examination of the reception conditions directive and housing facilities for asylum seekers in Malta"

BA (Hon) (2009): History and Political Studies. University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. Honour's Thesis: "Through the eyes of the Guardian newspaper: securitization and humaniotarian discourses and the arrival of Hungarian (1956-1957) and Kosovar (1999) refugees on Prince Edward Island, Canada"

Completed Research Projects:

(Research Co-ordinator) Retention of Aboriginal Students in Atlantic Canada’s Post-secondary Institutions: An analysis of the supports available to Aboriginal Students, Canadian Council on Learning, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada. Prinicipal Investigator: Dr. Vianne Timmons

(Research Co-ordinator) Connecting Families Through Community: An English as an Additional Language (EAL) Family Literacy Research Project, Human Resources and Skills Development, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada. Dr. Vianne Timmons.

see: http://www.upei.ca/education/communitybasedresearch

Phone (work):

416.979.5000

Keywords/phrases:

refugee camps

policy

refugee studies

migration in the Mediterranean region

Geographical Locations:

Toronto

Charlottetown

Prince Edward Island

Email:

thomas.cameron@ryerson.ca

Languages:

en

RRN User Name:

Bobby Thomas Cameron

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Continuing Education Certificate in Refugee and Forced Migration Issues

Deadine / Event Date:

2009/08/22 (All day)

Program Summary

This non-degree certificate program will consist of one introductory workshop and three 36- hour course for a total of 114 hours. The pedagogy consists of classroom sessions, small group and personal exercises and discussions.

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Geographical Locations:

Canada

Toronto