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Journal of Refugee Studies 2007 20(2):281-298; doi:10.1093/jrs/fem015
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In Search of ‘Invisible’ Actors: Barriers to Access in Refugee Research

Barbara Harrell-Bond

Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program, American University in Cairo, PO Box 2511, Cairo 11511, Egypt behbond{at}aucegypt.edu

Eftihia Voutira

Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, PO Box 1591, 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece voutira{at}uom.gr

The paper traces the early history of refugee research and shows how, from originally being prime movers in the research, refugees today have largely been reduced to invisibility. In the South, access to refugees held in camps is controlled by local government bureaucracies and by lead agencies, and may be severely restricted or completely denied; in the North, refugees held in detention centres are equally difficult to access and even more disempowered. Examples are given of studies carried out in Sierra Leone, Sudan, Egypt, Kenya, Greece and the Former Soviet Union. The paper also considers barriers to disseminating refugee research, and concludes that now more than ever the duty of the researcher is to speak on behalf of refugees.

Key Words: access • refugee camps • detention • empowerment • dissemination

MS received April 1, 2006 ; revised MS received March 1, 2006
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