Critical Research and Creative Practice with Migrant and Refugee Communities Towards Interventions Based on Practice Research and Community Voices.
Drawing on the voices and experiences of refugees, activists and professional practitioners, this collection illustrates the complexities of migration with real world case studies, and the possibilities of innovative therapeutic interventions.
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Bristol :
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2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Critical Research and Creative Practice with Migrant and Refugee Communities
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Critical research, crucial voices and creative practice
- Critical feminist and race theories
- Power in participatory research and practice
- Unpacking the terminology: migrants and refugees
- Integration
- Empowerment
- Overview of the book
- References
- Part I Critical research
- 2 Reflections on being 'outsider-.insiders' and 'insider-.outsiders': fluctuating positionalities in research with migrant and refugee women
- The project
- Longitudinal research
- Insider research
- Reflexivity
- Participatory action research
- Feeling safe
- From isolation to integration
- The impacts of our researcher positionalities
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 3 From neoliberalism to neoexclusionism: how grassroots faith communities are resisting division and crossing borders
- Our research with faith-based youth and community workers
- Morphology: neoliberalism to neoexclusionism
- Community development and resistance
- Faith beyond walls
- Responding to austerity
- Resisting individualisation
- Working together
- Safe spaces
- Challenging division and fear
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
- 4 Agency and frustration: overcoming obstacles at the UNHCR
- Conventional wisdom
- The Refugee Agency
- A complex world
- Methodology
- Findings and discussion
- Frustrations
- Lack of resources
- Structural fog
- Protection drought
- Motivations
- The people we work with
- Positive outcomes
- It matters
- Conclusion
- References
- 5 Exploring conceptions of 'home' with Afghan migrant and refugee women
- Home, migration and the second generation
- Home and homeland
- Migration and transnational studies
- Methodology: Researching home and migration in London
- Discussion: Home as multiplicity
- Home as spirituality and religion
- Home as a site of emotions
- Home as identity crisis
- Conclusion
- References
- Part II Crucial voices
- 6 Unaccompanied Afghan minors in the UK: integration dilemmas in retrospect
- Intersectionality and cultural identity theory
- Research design
- Findings and discussion
- Being an unaccompanied Afghan minor in the UK
- The integration process for Afghan minors
- Overlooked vulnerabilities and systemic failures
- Conclusion: Addressing complex needs
- References
- 7 Evolving paradigms: witnessing refugees' unstable passages to safety
- Witnessing refugees' unstable passages to safety
- Building a camp on trauma intervention principles
- Community conversations in post-.conflict Sierra Leone
- Overwhelming care
- Conclusion
- References