Open AccessFrom Ethics to Refusal: Protecting Migrant and Refugee Students from the Researcher's Gaze
Author(s) -
Vianney A. Gavilanes
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
refuge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1920-7336
pISSN - 0229-5113
DOI - 10.25071/1920-7336.40893
Subject(s) - refugee , reflexivity , gaze , context (archaeology) , field (mathematics) , sociology , orientation (vector space) , psychology , political science , social science , law , psychoanalysis , pure mathematics , geometry , mathematics , paleontology , biology
This piece makes a methodological contribution to refugee studies in the context of the “ethical turn” in the field by arguing for a spectre orientation to the student voice that resituates participant knowledge as diffused rather than explicit. This orientation, as a methodological stance, goes beyond reflexivity and practices a refusal to engage in damage-centred research. Drawing from a broad theoretical and conceptual literature within the contexts of forced migration, this short essay expands the current literature focusing on procedural ethics by offering a more humanizing methodology for conducting research with migrant and refugee youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.