Emerging research methods in environmental displacement and forced migration research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Miller ◽  
Anvy Vu
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Environmental Displacement

scholarly journals Scientific methods of public administration in migration research

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
András László Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Given ◽  
Insight Into

In my study, I list the directions of migration research, all from the point of view of public administration science. The emergence of migration research as an independent field is necessitated by the growth of migration. Researchers are researching the phenomenon of migration from their own field. Public administration uses a multidisciplinary, i.e. methodological approach of several disciplines, all of which is determined by the knowledge and nature of the subject of the given research. In the following, I review and evaluate the methodological directions of the research, which can provide an answer to a segment of the phenomenon of migration. The study gives an insight into research methods for migration research. It is not intended to present specific examples and procedures. At the end of the study, in possible directions, beyond the science of public administration, I list the organizations and faculties that are able to use the methodology of migration research.

scholarly journals Refugee filmmaking

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ◽  
Kaya Davies Hayon ◽  
Lucia Sorbera
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
New South ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Moral Environment ◽  
The Moment

The origins of this issue of Alphaville lie in collaborations between the Forced Migration Research Network (UNSW – University of New South Wales) and the Refugee Council of Australia, and in the inspiration afforded us by international colleagues and guests to Sydney (Fadma Aït Mous), Liverpool (Dennis Del Favero) and Lincoln (Hoda Afshar) universities. We have benefited from these academic alliances and invitations, but we also embrace the widest notion of hospitality, whereby the moment of arrival, the request for assistance and shelter, and subsequent decisions over citizenship and long-term residency are located in a moral environment of welcome and mutual learning. We trace and acknowledge our intellectual relationships here in so far as they have allowed us to articulate an emerging and shared recognition that refugee lived experience stands as the barometer for political civility and social health in our time.

scholarly journals Multiple Facets of Migration Research: Key Questions, Topics, and Avenues yet to Be Explored

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Visvizi ◽  
Miltiadis D. Lytras ◽  
Marta Pachocka
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Decisions To Leave ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Migration

Migration and its diverse forms, including economic migration, irregular migration, forced migration, as well as the plethora of factors that drive people’s decisions to leave their habitat and seek fortune in new places, occupy a dominant position in contemporary research and political debate. Academic literature today brims with contributions elaborating on the complexities and implications of migration, thus not only opening several avenues of research, but also delivering in-depth insights into the phenomenon of migration. This notwithstanding, certain topics require greater attention of the research community if ways of navigating the complex challenges and opportunities specific to migration are to be identified. This overview offers some leads in this respect. Against this backdrop, this introduction also highlights that much more work needs to be done to trigger the momentum for the inclusion of information and communication technology (ICT) in migration research. A case is made that in times of the 4th industrial revolution the nexus between ICT and migration needs to be taken seriously.

scholarly journals Refugee studies in Austria today

Focaal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (87) ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Leonardo Schiocchet ◽  
Sabine Bauer-Amin ◽  
Maria Six-Hohenbalken ◽  
Andre Gingrich
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Central European ◽  
Refugee Studies ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Main Current ◽  
Sociohistorical Context ◽  
Interdisciplinary Network

AbstractThis article sets out to highlight present-day anthropological contributions to the field of forced migration and to the current debates on this topic in Europe through the experience of developing an international and interdisciplinary network for the study of refugees based in Vienna, Austria. To this end, this article engages with the grounding facts of the present Central European sociohistorical context and global political trends, grapples with shifting and questionable research funding landscapes such as the focus on “integration,” illustrates some of the main current research challenges, and highlights pressing topics. It concludes proposing a research horizon to counter present strong limitations on forced migration research and steer this research toward a more meaningful direction.

scholarly journals Being There While Not Being There

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
Laura K. McAdam-Otto ◽  
Sarah Nimführ
Keyword(s):  
Forced Migration ◽  
Quality Criterion ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Being There ◽  
A Site

Multi-sited research has become a quality criterion for ethnographic research. This applies especially to studies on forced migration. Here, a site is often equated with a state, where researchers are usually required to be physically present. In this article, however, we ask: Must multi-sited research necessarily be multi-national? Do researchers have to be physically present at all sites? By discussing ethnographic material collected with forced migrants in Malta, we demonstrate that multi-sitedness is viewed in too narrow terms when site is equated with the nation-state. Adopting this approach also obscures refugees’ lived realities, their patterns of movement and their often truncated mobility. Instead, we carve out an understanding of multi-sited ethnography within one locality, introducing the concept of un-participated sites to include sites researchers are not able to physically visit. While the inaccessibility of sites is often inherent to ethnographic studies, it is all the more relevant for migration research.

APMJ – Chronicling 25 years of migration in Asia and the Pacific

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerrold W Huguet
Keyword(s):  
National Policy ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Migration System ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Asian Migration

When the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal was launched in 1992, it was the only journal in the region devoted exclusively to the study of migration. At that time, temporary labor migration from and within the region was already significant and it has continued to grow in volume, and national migration policies have evolved to cope with it. International migration has also received increasing attention from the United Nations and several targets of the Sustainable Development Goals explicitly refer to it. APMJ has chronicled most of these changes and emphasized such themes as migration and macro-level development, the human rights of migrants, women in migration, the social impacts of migration, national policy-making, multiculturalism and transnationalism. As migration research has been strengthened in universities and institutes within Asia, coverage by countries has shifted from articles about the region as a whole and Australia to a preponderance of articles concerning East Asia, especially China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, and a similar shift has been observed in the origin of the lead authors. Because the Journal largely reflects the research being conducted in Asia and the Pacific, gaps in coverage relate to migration from South Asia and to the Middle East, the Central Asian migration system, forced migration, the role of private recruitment agencies and methodological approaches to migration research.

scholarly journals The Role of Demographic Research in Promoting Refugee Resettlement and Integration in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Holly E. Reed ◽  
Ellen Percy Kraly ◽  
Irene Bloemraad
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Virtual Meeting

This introduction to this special issue of the Journal on Migration and Human Security discusses the background and focus of two meetings precursory to this collection, considers refugee resettlement and integration in the United States within the broader framework of the literature on migrant integration, and reflects on the role that population research can play in promoting successful and healthy refugee resettlement in the United States. Other contributions to the special issue are based on five of the presentations at a scientific workshop held in May 2019 in Washington, DC, entitled, “Forced Migration Research: From Theory to Practice in Promoting Migrant Well-Being.” A sixth article evolved from a virtual stakeholder meeting held as a follow-up activity in December 2020, entitled, “Refugee Resettlement in the United States: The Role of Migration Research in Promoting Migrant Well-being in a Post-Pandemic Era.” Both the workshop and the virtual meeting were hosted by the Committee on Population of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with dedicated support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

scholarly journals Ethics in Forced Migration Research: Taking Stock and Potential Ways Forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Christina Clark-Kazak
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
And Training

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 their work, including through the recent adoption of a Code of Ethics by the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM). However, gaps remain, particularly in relation to the intersection of procedural and relational ethics; specific ethical considerations of big data and macrocomparative analyses; localized meanings of ethics; and oversight of researchers collecting information outside of institutional ethics boards. The paper concludes with the following recommendations: Institutional Research Ethics Boards should familiarize themselves with the particular ethical challenges in migration research, as well as available resources, such as the IASFM Code of Ethics. Ethics boards should include researchers and community representatives who are familiar with migration in reviews of related projects. Academic and training programs in migration studies should include sessions and resources on migration-specific research ethics. Nonacademic organizations, including migrant-led organizations, should provide information resources and training to their staff and clients to ensure that they understand procedural ethics requirements, relational ethical principles, as well as the rights of those asked to participate in research. Organizations conducting their own research should establish ethics review processes and relational ethics norms. A leading migration studies center or institution should map existing ethical guidelines and processes in different countries and contexts to be better aware of overlap and gaps. This mapping should take the form of an open access, interactive database, so that information can be accessible and updated in real time. Researchers should engage in more dissemination of lessons learned on ethics in migration. While there is some emerging consensus on key ethical principles for migration research, it is in their application that researchers face dilemmas. Honest reflection and sharing of these experiences will help researchers to anticipate and manage similar dilemmas they encounter while undertaking research. Researchers at all stages of their careers should not undertake migration research without having first reviewed some of the literature on ethics and migration, which is partially cited in this paper. Research centers should facilitate dialogue on ethical issues in languages other than English, particularly languages most spoken by people in migration, and by people who are underrepresented in formal ethics processes and debates, especially those with direct experience of migration.

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