Exclusion from the conversation: reflections from Afghan refugees

The challenge of increasing diversity and inclusion in global conversations about forced migration is widely recognized. Research and policy decision-making have tended to be led by actors who rarely originate from or represent the voices of people most directly affected by these decisions. There is...

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Published in:Forced migration review 2022-09 (70), p.58-61
Main Authors: Rabi, Asma, Ullah, Noor, Daltry, Rebecca
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to education
Community
Decision making
Discrimination
Displaced persons
Employment
Forced migration
Higher education
Migrants
Migration
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Ownership
Participation
Passports & visas
Policy making
Prejudice
Refugees
Scholarly publishing
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Summary:The challenge of increasing diversity and inclusion in global conversations about forced migration is widely recognized. Research and policy decision-making have tended to be led by actors who rarely originate from or represent the voices of people most directly affected by these decisions. There is, however, a growing call to recognize the value of inclusion and representation. The participation of refugees as co-researchers has been identified as a potentially important means of increasing the sense of refugees' ownership and responsibility, building their skills and capacities, enabling critical reflection on research processes and maximizing local participation. This has been reflected in calls to create pathways to share academic knowledge from the Global South and debunk traditionally pervasive assumptions that such research is of a lesser quality. In policy spheres, there have been movements to reflect refugee participation in international mechanisms of decision-making, such as the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees.
ISSN:1460-9819
2051-3070