Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and Faculty Clinical Centre PraxisP, University of Leuven.
Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, McGill University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2022 Jul;28(3):325-337. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000458. Epub 2021 Aug 2.
An increasing body of literature emphasizes the role of refugees' social context, with social conditions both at home and in the host society having an impact on the possibility of power redistribution and the mobilization of agency in collaborative research practices. Our aim is to develop a contextualized understanding of research participation for refugees in collaborative research in order to further enhance insights on the potential strengths and pitfalls of collaborative refugee research.
We closely study the various relational contexts that shape refugees' research participation and that may have an influence on power dynamics in collaborative research. In the present study, we explore participants' adaptation of research participation by means of an interpretive cross-case analysis of three psychosocial intervention studies sharing a collaborative approach with refugee participants, refugee families, refugee communities, and professional partners at different stages in the research process.
We identify the developed collaborative strategies in our three case studies and provide an outline of the ways refugees mobilize research participation through these identified collaborative strategies, from within the relational contexts of the family, community, and institutional actors.
This analysis shows how research participation operates as a relational forum in which refugees continuously navigate and negotiate within and between multiple relational contexts. We argue that performing research participation, as a way of relating to a relational context, is both an interactive and a dynamic process. For research practice, our analysis addresses the importance of an in-depth understanding of participants' relational contexts to foster both a reflective research practice and trustful research relationships between researchers and participants. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
越来越多的文献强调了难民社会背景的作用，难民在原籍国和收容国的社会条件对权力再分配和代理机构在合作研究实践中的动员能力都有影响。我们的目的是深入了解难民在合作研究中的参与情况，以便进一步增强对合作难民研究潜在优势和陷阱的认识。
我们深入研究了影响合作研究中权力动态的各种关系背景，这些关系背景塑造了难民的研究参与。在本研究中，我们通过对三个具有合作方法的心理社会干预研究的解释性交叉案例分析，探讨了参与者如何通过这些已确定的合作策略来调整研究参与，这些研究涉及难民参与者、难民家庭、难民社区以及研究过程中不同阶段的专业合作伙伴。
我们确定了我们三个案例研究中的发展合作策略，并提供了一个概述，说明难民如何通过这些已确定的合作策略，从家庭、社区和机构行为者的关系背景中，调动研究参与。
这项分析表明，研究参与如何作为一个关系论坛运作，难民在其中不断地在多个关系背景中进行导航和协商。我们认为，作为一种与关系背景相关的方式，进行研究参与既是一个互动的过程，也是一个动态的过程。对于研究实践，我们的分析强调了深入了解参与者关系背景的重要性，以促进研究人员和参与者之间的反思性研究实践和信任关系。
