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Critical Research and Creative Practice with Migrant and Refugee Communities : Towards Interventions Based on Practice Research and Community Voices.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Callan, Brian.
Contributor:
Nkhoma, Pearson.
Thompson, Naomi.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Refugees.
Social work with immigrants.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.
Language Note:
In English.
Summary:
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.
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
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
Acknowledgement
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
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
Part II Crucial voices
6 Unaccompanied Afghan minors in the UK: integration dilemmas in retrospect
Intersectionality and cultural identity theory
Research design
Being an unaccompanied Afghan minor in the UK
The integration process for Afghan minors
Overlooked vulnerabilities and systemic failures
Conclusion: Addressing complex needs
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
8 In the refuge of the wake: intersectional considerations in therapeutic practice with African refugees
Introduction (of the wake)
Wakes and stitches
Listening to images
A stitch is like a bridge to a community
'You are not just a therapist to me, you are my African brother'
Stitching happens in community partnership
Marked migrations
Conclusion: (Re)fugue work
9 Kwapatakwapata! Young Malawian girls trapped in predatory odysseys
Escaping deprivation, child marriages and child prostitution
Loni's journey: being trapped in prostitution
Dissecting and reframing conflict
Notes
Part III Creative practice
10 Social justice and professional values: exploring motivations and opportunities for values-led practice
A note on terminology
Background
Brief methodology
Findings and discussion.
Social justice as a driving force
Practising in the way you know you should
A critical space for contemporary practice
A collective voice for a political profession
Social work with migrants as part of an international cause
11 Finding new ground: a creative movement and art group with asylum-seeking women
Piecing together a patchwork narrative
Positionality and group structure
Travelling water
Staying afloat
Making into being
Finding new ground
12 New Town Culture: creative processes in social work with refugee and asylum-seeking young people
The research
Five creative processes
Hopeful disruption
Sound mirrors and loudspeakers
Radical hospitality
Perfect party
Ceremony, or making moments matter
Tokens
Unlocking culture/.s
Your Future
Not knowing
Note
13 Conclusion: Challenging times and hopeful futures
People matter
Intersectionality
A global protection drought
Index.
Notes:
This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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ISBN:
1-4473-7280-8
1-4473-7281-6
OCLC:
1528358695

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