What is it about?
Human displacement is the result of global politics and violence. Displacement has increasingly affected the entire life course of youth with no other option than to leave their homelands. Research on displacement has, for the most part, focused on migrants' trauma and resilience. These harms occur, but this study samples diverse narratives to consider a broader range of experience and knowledge. This narrative research with hundreds of expressions by displaced youth, their peers in local high schools, educators, policy makers, and new reporters highlights, in particular, the critical reflections and creative imaginations of young people who suffered violent journeys. This close reading of their narratives offers surprising insights for policy, practice, and research.
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Why is it important?
This article presents a rigorous qualitative method of narrative research design. The narrative values anlaysis highlights the experience and knowledge of displaced youth in relation to violent political processes, interlocutors, and interventions they faced along their journeys.
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The collaborative process of research for this article involved intense sharing of diverse perspectives, listening carefully to one another, and together learning from the voices of the study participants.
Professor Colette Daiute
Graduate Center, City University of New York
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This page is a summary of: Dynamic values negotiating geo-political narratives across a migration system., Qualitative Psychology, October 2020, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/qup0000166.
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