Abstract This paper examines the ethically complex position of scholar-practitioners embedded in the refugee reception system. Moving beyond mere acknowledgement of tensions, it examines the lived experiences of two researchers who simultaneously occupy the roles of social worker, activist, and researcher. Drawing on ethnographic material and critical literature in migration studies, the study foregrounds a central question: how can researcher-activists ethically navigate the contradictions of conducting rigorous inquiries within contexts that reproduce vulnerability, inequality, or harm? Through close analysis of moments where social work, advocacy, and research collide, the paper maps recurring ethical dilemmas - co-optation into service delivery, erosion of neutrality, emotionally fraught grey zones, and the risk of perpetuating harm. Rather than prescribing solutions, it advances a praxis-oriented reflexivity emphasizing methodological transparency, continual ethical deliberation, and institutional support for practitioner-researchers, aiming to contribute empirically and theoretically to debates on research ethics, social work, and the politics of asylum.
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Igor José de Reno Machado, Alexandre Branco-Pereira
Resumo Neste texto apresentamos uma rápida revisão do que se sabe hoje sobre a emigração brasileira, além de apresentarmos alguns dados relevantes sobre este movimento, com a intenção de colocá-lo em perspectiva em relação à imigração atual no Brasil. Além disso buscamos situar os textos do dossiê neste contexto atual de produção de conhecimento sobre a emigração brasileira, mapeando as lacunas a serem preenchidas por futuros trabalhos e destacando as principais características temáticas desta nova produção.
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Although a growing body of literature has focused on the experience of young people with migration experience with Swedish sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, there is a lack of deep qualitative exploration. The study aims to explore the encounters of young people with migration experience with SRH services and their understandings of factors that affect their use of these services. The findings of this study were drawn from 18 interviews conducted between October 2021 and May 2023 in Southern Sweden. A combination of convenient and snowball sampling strategies was used. Participants included in the study self-identified as Middle Eastern, migrated to Sweden, and were aged between 17 and 26. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis approach.Three themes were generated during the analysis. The first SRH services: dual perceptions and experiences shows how participants had ambivalent perceptions of SRH services, mainly the youth clinic. Some perceived the youth clinic as a stigmatized place associated with shame and SRH concerns like unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, while others viewed the youth clinic as a safe space. The negative perceptions along with the difficulties with accessing the youth clinic contributed to low service use. The second Sexuality education: an eye-opener or a joke? reflects participants’ both positive and negative experiences and attitudes when receiving sexuality education in schools. The third SRH information: beyond formal services and education captures participants’ ways of accessing SRH information that go beyond information provided at the traditional SRH services and sexuality education in schools. These sources include the family, friends, and the internet. The study points to the need for multicomponent strategies to improve the accessibility of SRH services and draws attention to the importance of challenging norms related to Swedishness in sexuality education to foster the engagement of youth with migration experience and ensure their sexual citizenship.
Public aspects of medicine, Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Las relaciones filioparentales en familias de origen chino apenas han sido investigadas en España desde el punto de vista del desarrollo psicológico. Mediante entrevistas individuales con 18 adolescentes y adultos emergentes de origen familiar chino (de 2.ª generación y generación 1.5), se exploraron sus experiencias en el ámbito laboral familiar, su tiempo de ocio, sus percepciones acerca de la relación con sus progenitores, el apoyo parental recibido, su orientación cultural, así como el modo en que estos aspectos afectan a su bienestar psicológico. Los resultados muestran que varios de estos aspectos, algunos de ellos normativos, afectan al bienestar de los entrevistados y a la calidad de la relación con sus figuras parentales. Estos jóvenes se sentían obligados/as, de forma directa o indirecta, a contribuir al negocio familiar o a apoyarlo a través de tareas domésticas o administrativas. Su propio desarrollo les permite reinterpretar esas experiencias pasadas viendo su necesidad en el sistema familiar, y percibiéndolas no solo como obstáculo a su bienestar psicológico en relación con su falta de autonomía, sino también como motor de su desarrollo. Indican que tienen una identidad bicultural y discrepan de las expectativas parentales sobre el cumplimiento de normas relativas al respeto a los progenitores (piedad filial). Como principales dificultades en la relación señalan la limitación impuesta de tiempo libre y autonomía y la falta de calidez de sus padres.
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Molobe Ikenna Daniel, Odukoya Oluwakemi, Yesufu Victoria Oluwasola
Background: This study examined the context of drug use and trafficking in irregular migration among identified Nigerian-returned migrants from Libyan detention centers in the transit or destination along the Mediterranean irregular migratory route. Method: Population of study utilized sample size of 382 (238 males and 144 females). Participants’ recruitment employed the use of snowballing and judgmental sampling. Data were collected with interviewer-administered questionnaire, and supplemented through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and case study. Result: The summary of the findings revealed that most participants were smuggled (97.9%) and trafficked (96.6%). Drug use in migration was 61.3% prevalent among the participants. Frustration and trauma were the leading cause of drug use among migrants. About 15.7% of the participants trafficked drugs on migration and 28% among those that trafficked drugs had experience of arrest for drug trafficking (in Libya). The study also discovered that some of the migrants who got into drug trafficking were to raise money for survival, while some were compelled into the business. Conclusion: Drug use and drug trafficking are prevalent in irregular migration. The findings of this study draw attention to evaluate interventions to reduce drug use and trafficking among irregular migrants.
La transición a la vida adulta de los jóvenes/as migrantes no acompañados es un tema escasamente estudiado, aunque constituye la piedra angular sobre la que asentar sus procesos de inclusión social. Este estudio propone describir los procesos de intervención socioeducativa que se desarrollan con estos/as jóvenes, explorar la oferta formativa y las trayectorias académicas y los canales para acceder al empleo y sus tipologías, y evidenciar los obstáculos en estos ámbitos. Es un estudio exploratorio y cualitativo. Se realizaron 163 entrevistas individuales y 23 grupos de discusión en varias comunidades autónomas. Los resultados indican que la organización de los centros junto a las barreras para completar la formación, la precariedad de los empleos a los que acceden y la carencia de ingresos mínimos condicionan la transición a la vida adulta. Se concluye que es necesario anticipar la intervención para la preparación de la transición, aumentar los recursos para mayores de 18 años y dotar los programas de un marco estandarizado.
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Gabriela Viol Valle, Mariana Bonomo, Julia Alves Brasil
Resumo. Esta pesquisa objetivou analisar experiências de inserção social de homens sírios em situação de refúgio no Brasil. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas individuais realizadas on-line e a amostra foi composta por 10 homens sírios em situação de refúgio no Brasil há mais de quatro anos, com idades entre 25 e 43 anos. O tratamento dos dados foi realizado por meio da análise de conteúdo. Os resultados evidenciaram categorias temáticas que se referem a: (i) relações interpessoais, incluindo amizade, relacionamentos amoroso, familiar e com brasileiros, além de elementos sobre como o idioma interfere nessas relações; (ii) trabalho, no Brasil e na Síria; (iii) religião, com enfoque nos conflitos, nos grupos religiosos e nas (des)crenças dos participantes; e (iv) preconceitos e estereótipos, que resultam em discriminações. Discutem-se os processos de inserção social em função das dimensões temáticas centrais ao contexto de vida desses indivíduos em situação de refúgio.
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
This paper contends that the power of Deleuze & Guattari’s (1988) notion of assemblage as theorised in 1000 Plateaus can be normalised and reductive with reference to its application to any social-cultural context where an open system of dynamic and fluid elements are located. Rather than determining the assemblage in this way, this paper argues for an alternative conception of ‘strange assemblage’ that must be deliberately and consciously created through rigorous and focused intellectual, creative and philosophical work around what makes assemblages singular. The paper will proceed with examples of ‘strange assemblage’ taken from a film by Peter Greenaway (A Zed and 2 Noughts); the film ‘Performance’; educational research with Sudanese families in Australia; the book, Bomb Culture by Jeff Nuttall (1970); and the band Hawkwind. Fittingly, these elements are themselves chosen to demonstrate the concept of ‘strange assemblage’, and how it can be presented. How exactly the elements of a ‘strange assemblage’ come together and work in the world is unknown until they are specifically elaborated and created ‘in the moment’. Such spontaneous methodology reminds us of the 1960s ‘Happenings’, the Situationist International and Dada/Surrealism. The difference that will be opened up by this paper is that all elements of this ‘strange assemblage’ cohere in terms of a rendering of ‘the unacceptable.'
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration, Sociology (General)
Collecting “individual stories” to establish the “shared history” of immigration in France is one of the fundamental principles of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration (National Centre of Immigration History, CNHI), in Paris. It is a museum that opened in 2007 in order to create a “Centre of history and living memory”. According to this vision, a three-pronged collection was constituted according to history, ethnography, and contemporary art. The ethnographic collections are composed of individual life stories, accompanied by the donation of objects. In this way, the CNHI becomes the depositary of “self-narratives” of migrants whether French or not, and of their children or grandchildren. This article explains how the collections were created and reflects on the universal dimension of the migratory phenomenon.
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Little attention has been paid to the problems refugees and their families face while they try to reconstruct their social life and networks in exile. In this paper, refugees’ migration biographies and social integration in Norway is linked to broader issue of family membership and gender roles. Drawing on qualitative data and interviews with refugees, paper show how refugees’ family situation influence refugees’ social integration in exile, their perspectives on mainstream society and home country, inclusive their attitudes toward repatriation. It is argued in the paper that single refugees are more exposed to feelings of loneliness and social marginality in relation to the mainstream than refugees who are in exile together with their families and children. The paper maintains that in some cases, family members may facilitate integration into Norwegian networks. Among other things, family members may appear as family networking teams who simultaneously reproduce ties along the lines of a common family affiliation and bridge across ethnic groups. As members of such a team, family members will help to expand each other’s personal networks through joined networking activities. Finally, the findings also indicate that certain categories of refugee women who come to Norway through procedures for family reunion may be strongly dependant on their husbands, ending up in traditional gender roles and segregated social networks. The presented findings have potential implications for repatriation schemes and integration policies.
Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Standard migration theories see receiving countries as the dynamic agent which pull migrants to them. These theories, while useful for explaining many cases, appear inadequate for the case of labor migration from Haiti to Cuba and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. This article examines this history and offers an alternative theoretical framework for explaining this migration flow. It is argued that the prime cause of migration from Haiti is factors in the sending country.
The structure of the present system of immigration control in Australia is examined here in the context of its origin, evolution and responses to current human rights and anti-discrimination standards. This article argues that the system has serious shortcomings because it confers broad discretionary powers on immigration officials and provides no comprehensive system of judicial review. Since the 1970s the system has been gradually losing its legitimacy and has become a subject of challenges by various groups. Its efficiency has been undermined and it breeds social conflict and systematic human rights violations. The suggestion is made for development of a new immigration control system, based upon legislation that incorporates all objectives and principles pertaining to immigration policy, procedure, and review.