Title:

Challenges of Ethnographic Research with War Migrants from Ukraine

Creator:

Trzeszczyńska, Patrycja

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2023

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Czasopismo/Artykuł

Subject and Keywords:

war migrants ; Ukraine ; ethics ; ethnographic fieldwork

Abstract:

This short reflection on ethnographic research with forced migrants who arrived in Poland after February 24, 2022, addresses topics that are crucial in designing a research project in cooperation with people who fled from Ukraine. Issues related to research ethics, the situation of difficult research in cooperation with potentially traumatised people, positioned by popular discourses as refugees and victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are explored here. In addition, my reflection concerns access to the site, the researcher’s involvement and responsibility, the specificity of the research situation, as well as problems and challenges facing their archiving and representation. I indicate research risks such as revictimisation, lack of psychological tools and burdens of the researcher, and the further life of constructed ethnographic knowledge that is built on the experience of war migrants from Ukraine. This reflection text also includes some practical advice on designing conversations with war migrants from Ukraine. In addition to the indicated challenges of ethnographic research in cooperation with forced migrants from Ukraine, the paper contains an appeal for a radical increase in ethical standards in a situation of war and forced migration.

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Relation:

Etnografia Polska

Volume:

67

Issue:

1-2

Start page:

229

End page:

236

Resource type:

Tekst

Detailed Resource Type:

Artykuł

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

0071-1861 ; e-ISSN: 2719-6534 ; doi:10.23858/EP67.2023.3396

Source:

IAiE PAN, sygn. P 325 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P 326 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P 327 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Licencja Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa 4.0

Terms of use:

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Digitizing institution:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Original in:

Biblioteka Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN

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