Reflecting on dominant perspectives in exploring migration processes: insights from our fieldworks
(2023)
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- It is now well established that refugee claimants tend to be overly represented as a uniform group. In parallel, victimhood and powerlessness, experiences of violence and repression have progressively gained particular attention in exploring contemporary displacements. These manners of framing refugees’ experiences entered collective imaginaries attached to a series of preconceived representations that are not questioned anymore. These imaginaries permeate the literature on migration, which uses to privilege certain viewpoints, understandings, categories and voices that can be reckoned as “dominant”. By using insights from our ongoing research, we aim to problematize these dominant frameworks - victimhood in one way and violent displacement in the other - to understand migratory experiences. In particular, the research project on women during the current refugee status determination (RSD) program in Canada as well as the experiences of Syrian students and entrepreneurs having migrated to Belgium before the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in 2011 are two good examples to explore what we reckon as neglected analytical perspectives.
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Faccenda, V. F., & Dahin, C. (2023). Reflecting on dominant perspectives in exploring migration processes: insights from our fieldworks.