Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and photographs
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- one Introduction
- two Refugees as researchers: experiences from the project ‘Bridges and fences: paths to refugee integration in the EU’
- three Limited exchanges: approaches to involving people who do not speak English in research and service development
- four Breaking the silence: participatory research processes about health with Somali refugee people seeking asylum
- five Home/lessness as an indicator of integration: interviewing refugees about the meaning of home and accommodation
- six The community leader, the politician and the policeman: a personal perspective
- seven Complexity and community empowerment in regeneration, 2002-04
- eight Refugee voices as evidence in policy and practice
- nine Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees
- ten Why religion matters
- eleven Action learning: a research approach that helped me to rediscover my integrity
- Appendix Guidelines funded through the Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series ‘Eliciting the views of refugee people seeking asylum’
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and photographs
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- one Introduction
- two Refugees as researchers: experiences from the project ‘Bridges and fences: paths to refugee integration in the EU’
- three Limited exchanges: approaches to involving people who do not speak English in research and service development
- four Breaking the silence: participatory research processes about health with Somali refugee people seeking asylum
- five Home/lessness as an indicator of integration: interviewing refugees about the meaning of home and accommodation
- six The community leader, the politician and the policeman: a personal perspective
- seven Complexity and community empowerment in regeneration, 2002-04
- eight Refugee voices as evidence in policy and practice
- nine Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees
- ten Why religion matters
- eleven Action learning: a research approach that helped me to rediscover my integrity
- Appendix Guidelines funded through the Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series ‘Eliciting the views of refugee people seeking asylum’
- Index
Summary
The final stages of preparing this book for publication were completed against the backdrop of the bombings in London in July 2005 in an atmosphere of fear of difference, and an increase in racial harassment and abuse.
The media focus is on the extent to which people should be allowed to have different views and come from different backgrounds and still be entitled to be ‘citizens’. Moreover, research interest in ethnicity continues to mushroom, with religion moving to centre stage. In the current climate it is more important than ever for researchers to be inclusive with whom they work. If we want to ensure that we do not, in effect, silence sections of society it is essential that we continue to have debates around the range of research approaches that can be applied and how views can be obtained in practice so that we can examine differences and similarities across groups of people.
The chapters in this book demonstrate the breadth and depth of research that is possible with refugee people seeking asylum. They show the benefits and challenges for policy developers and service providers when researchers, refugee people seeking asylum and practitioners discuss their different views.
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- Doing Research with RefugeesIssues and Guidelines, pp. ixPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2006