Narratives of Refugee Belonging-ness: Experiences of Novice Researchers
Location
DeSantis Room 1049
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
17-1-2020 8:45 AM
End Date
17-1-2020 9:05 AM
Abstract
Deeply embroiled in today’s political culture are questions of immigration policies and solutions to challenges that are surrounding these policies. Throughout the world, refugees of different nations seek to immigrate to new lands, including the USA. This study examined refugees’ lived experiences as they became members of a south Florida community.
Situated within an introductory Qualitative Research course at a local south Florida university, novice researchers sought to master different approaches to qualitative research and implement one approach in an original research project. This presentation of our Community-Based research study offers insight into how these researchers and their professor worked with a local community program to develop a study that examines refugees’ lived experiences of belonging-ness. The researchers will describe the project from design, implementation, data collection and analysis to the final narrative products. Narrative products will be offered by their authors, along with insight into how to best address and overcome the challenges of this type of research.
Keywords
narrative, refugees, community-based
Narratives of Refugee Belonging-ness: Experiences of Novice Researchers
DeSantis Room 1049
Deeply embroiled in today’s political culture are questions of immigration policies and solutions to challenges that are surrounding these policies. Throughout the world, refugees of different nations seek to immigrate to new lands, including the USA. This study examined refugees’ lived experiences as they became members of a south Florida community.
Situated within an introductory Qualitative Research course at a local south Florida university, novice researchers sought to master different approaches to qualitative research and implement one approach in an original research project. This presentation of our Community-Based research study offers insight into how these researchers and their professor worked with a local community program to develop a study that examines refugees’ lived experiences of belonging-ness. The researchers will describe the project from design, implementation, data collection and analysis to the final narrative products. Narrative products will be offered by their authors, along with insight into how to best address and overcome the challenges of this type of research.