Mobilizing Global Knowledge
Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Subjects
- Emigration & Immigration, Social Work, Immigration
- Categories
- Author lives in Alberta , Author lives in Ontario
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773850887
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $42.99
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Description
In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have become increasingly politicized and sensationalized, researchers have come together to form regional and global networks dedicated to working with displaced people to learn how to respond to their needs ethically, compassionately, and for the best interests of the global community.
Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together academics and practitioners to reflect on a global collaborative refugee research network. Together, the members of this network have had a wide-ranging impact on research and policy, working to bridge silos, sectors, and regions. They have addressed power and politics in refugee research, engaged across tensions between the Global North and Global South, and worked deeply with questions of practice, methodology, and ethics in refugee research.
Bridging scholarship on network building for knowledge production and scholarship on research with and about refugees, Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together a vibrant collection of topics and perspectives. It addresses ethical methods in research practice, the possibilities of social media for data collection and information dissemination, environmental displacement, transitional justice, and more. This is essential reading for anyone interested in how to create and share knowledge to the benefit of the millions of people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes.
About the authors
Susan McGrath is professor emerita and senior scholar at the School of Social Work and Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
Julie E. E. Young is Canada Research Chair in Critical Border Studies and assistant professor in the Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge.
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Christina Clark-Kazak is an associate professor of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa.
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Wenona Giles is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty at York University.
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Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights.
A former classical musician, she has been working in migrant justice since 2008, first as a settlement worker and community organizer, and now as a researcher and lawyer. She writes about digital border technologies, immigration detention, health and human rights, gender-based violence, as well as the politics of refugee, immigration, and international law.
Petra has worked all over the world including Jordan, Turkey, Philippines, Kenya, Colombia, Canada, Palestine, and various parts of Europe. She is the co-creator of the Migration and Technology Monitor, a collective of civil society, journalists, academics, and filmmakers interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and a Faculty Associate (and former Fellow) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Petra’s first book, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in The Age of Artificial Intelligence, is published with The New Press in 2024.
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James C. Simeon is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University.