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 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.

Who gives “Voice” or “Empowers Migrants” in Participatory Action Research? Challenges and Solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Martha Adelia Montero-Sieburth
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Migration Research

Given the power relationships between researchers and participants in Participatory Action Research (PAR), this chapter challenges the assumption that migration researchers “give voice” or “empower” participants, and advances the idea that such researchers need to uncover their own voice in the research process through dialogue, interaction and reflection with their partners. In the literature review on PAR, the concept of “giving voice” is quite prevalent yet based on the author’s own qualitative/migration research, she would argue that the actual voice of participants themselves is seldom emphasized or revealed in qualitative/migration research. Paulo Freire’s concepts of dialogue, conscientization, and action for change underscored by his interpretation of voice, which recognizes that marginalized people’s voices emerge out of the conditioned silence created by differential power dynamics, is critically needed as grounding for PAR researchers. In critiquing the use of voice, the conclusion makes a plea for PAR researchers to engage in finding their own voice by embracing the notion of cultural humility.

scholarly journals North-South Dialogues in Forced Migration

Refuge ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McWeeny
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Refugee Studies ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
Canadian Council

The following speech was given by Elizabeth McWeeny, President of the Canadian Council of Refugees, on the occasion of the opening of the tenth biennial conference of the International Association of the Study of Forced Migration, hosted by the Centre for Refugee Studies of York University in June 2006.

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.

Research pathways and outreach to drive cellulosic nanomaterials development

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 358-361
Author(s):  
KATHLEEN BENNETT
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Renewable Raw Materials ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
Technology Roadmap ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Funding Opportunities ◽  
New Research

There are many opportunities for development and use of cellulosic nanomaterials, sustainably made from renewable raw materials. Significant challenges in manufacturing and application are being overcome. The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance has issued a technology roadmap identifying key research challenges in a number of priority areas. The purpose of the roadmap is to seek the engagement of researchers and the support of partners to execute the identified research needs to accelerate commercialization. New research funding opportunities are identified. In addition to the research challenges, there are communications needs that must also be addressed, and public-private partnerships that must be executed.

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