The Microphysics of Participation in Refugee Research
Refugee Research Centre, University of East London Docklands Campus, 4–6 University Way, London E16 2RD
g.dona@uel.ac.uk
This paper examines the involvement of refugees in the production and reproduction of knowledge of which they are ultimately meant to be beneficiaries. By using examples from research with Central American refugees and Rwandan displaced children, it considers forced migrants’ roles as participants in research, their position in ‘participatory’ research, and the representation of refugees’ voices in refugee-centred research. Power is intimately connected to the diverse ways in which participation unfolds, and the last part of the paper examines refugees’ participation in research in terms of ‘power that circulates’ (Foucault) to show that they are not more or less powerful but vehicles for the circulation of power, simultaneously undergoing and exercising it.
Key Words: refugee participation • participatory research • representation • refugee voices • Foucault's power • Central American refugees • Rwandan children
MS received August 1, 2006
; revised MS received February 1, 2007
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