Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women: 'Insiders' and 'Outsiders' in Research and Practice
Author(s): Naomi Thompson, Rabia Nasimi, Marina Rova, & Andy Turner
Publisher: Emerald Points
Print Length: 176 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science, Arts & Humanities, Methodology & Methods
Area: The United Kingdom (UK)
Topic: Ethics, Insider & Outsider Researcher, Migrants, Migration, Refugees & Forced Migration, Research, Research Methods, Bottom-up Research, Community, Development, Community Development, Organization, Culture & Society, Altruism, Volunteer & Volunteerism, Social Cohesion, Integration
Marginalised migrant groups face significant barriers in accessing services and becoming integrated in their communities. Mainstream services are failing to engage many marginalised migrant and refugee women and to respond effectively to their needs, raising serious questions as to how community development might respond and facilitate positive spaces and reduce isolation.
Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women: ‘Insiders’ and ‘Outsiders’ in Research and Practice outlines the implications for policy, practice and meaningful research with migrant and refugee women drawing on a three-year case study of a community-based organisation working with marginalised Muslim women in London.
Arguing for a bottom-up approach that centres on needs as well as assets, Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women highlights the importance of cultural relevance of services, and a holistic approach to integration that acknowledges the full range of needs and experiences migrant and refugee women face.
Co-written by academic researchers and practitioner-researchers, this volume contributes to both academic and policy debates where there is a need for more research and policy that understands the experiences of migrant and refugee women as well as which interventions are effective.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction — Intersectionality, Integration and Empowerment
2. Insiders and Outsiders in Research with Refugee and Migrant Women
3. Migrants and Refugees: An ‘Outsider’ Group?
4. Community Development with Migrant and Refugee Women
5. From Isolation to Aspiration
6. From Aspiration towards Integration
7. Stories of Empowerment and Change
8. Trauma-Informed Practice with Migrant and Refugee Women
9. Conclusions and Implications — Developing Policy, Practice and Research with and for Migrant and Refugee Women
Bibliography
Index
Naomi Thompson is a sociologist of youth, faith and inclusion with particular research interests in faith-based youth work and the inclusiveness of such provision. She is an applied researcher with a focus on co-production and on ensuring the voices of marginalised and excluded communities are heard. Whilst she approached research primarily from a sociological perspective particularly in the everyday narratives of young people and communities, she is inter-disciplinary with undergraduate degree in youth and community work in the School of Applied Social Sciences (SASS) at the University of Durham, and MA in Education and PhD in Religious Studies, both with The Open University.
Source: https://www.gold.ac.uk/stacs/staff/thompson-naomi/
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Rabia Nasimi is a former Afghan refugee who fled Afghanistan in 1999. She is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at University of Cambridge. Whilst studying she has been extensively involved in running the ACAA (Afghanistan and Central Asian Association), a charity that was founded by her father Dr. Nooralhaq Nasimi in 2001 to support refugee integration in the UK. As part of her work at the ACAA she has worked on a diaspora-led development programme in Afghanistan as well as supporting women and families who are refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
Source: https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/rabia-nasimi
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Marina Rova is Programme Convenor, lecturer, registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist, PhD Supervisor and interdisciplinary researcher. Her practice-based PhD (2017) explored kinaesthetic empathy through the intersections of dance movement psychotherapy, phenomenology and cognitive neuroscience. Marina leads the MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy programme and is a research active academic lecturing on a range of subjects (DMP theory, academic skills, research methods, experiential groupwork and supervision), offering PhD supervision under the Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies (STaCS) department and contributing to research and writing in the arts therapies and related areas.
Source: https://www.gold.ac.uk/stacs/staff/rova-marina/
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Andy Turner has worked for over three decades in community and youth work, as a practitioner, activist, trainer, researcher and manager in some of the poorest parts of England. In the 1990’s Andy co-founded The Kabin and The Hackney Marsh Partnership, working with East London communities to provide education, training and employment projects, advice services, social enterprise and youth work. A former Director establishing new networks and approaches at Church Urban Fund, Andy now works as an independent consultant and facilitator. He is a lecturer in applied social studies and community and youth work at Goldsmiths University of London and an associate researcher at the Centre for Community Engagement Research. He is a doctoral candidate at the Faiths and Civil Society Unit at Goldsmiths University of London. Andy is a trustee and former chair of various arts, civil-society and anti-poverty charities.
Source: https://www.gold.ac.uk/stacs/staff/turner-andy/
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