Ethics and displacement (Forced Migration Review 61)

Jun 20 2019 29 ep. 11 mins 1.2k

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We each live according to our own personal code of ethics but what moral principles guide our work? The 19 feature theme articles in this issue debate many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images. Prepare to be enlightened, unsettled and challenged. This issue is being published in tribute to Barbara Harrell-Bond, founder of the Refugee Studies Centre and FMR, who died in July 2018: www.fmreview.org/ethics

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FMR 61 - From the Editors

Jun 20 2019 3 mins

What moral principles guide our work? This issue debates many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images. We each live according to our own personal code of ethics but what moral principles guide our work? The 19 feature theme articles in this issue debate many of

FMR 61 - Big data, little ethics: confidentiality and consent

Jun 20 2019 13 mins

Donors’ thirst for data is increasingly undermining security and confidentiality, putting both survivors of violence and staff at risk.

FMR 61 - New technologies in migration: human rights impacts

Jun 20 2019 13 mins

States are keen to explore the use of new technologies in migration management, yet greater oversight and accountability mechanisms are needed in order to safeguard fundamental rights.

FMR 61 - Social media screening: Norway’s asylum system

Jun 20 2019 11 mins

The growing use of data gathered from social media in asylum claim assessments raises critical yet underexplored ethical questions.

FMR 61 - Developing ethical guidelines for research

Jun 20 2019 17 mins

The IASFM has agreed an international code of ethics to guide research with displaced people. Challenges that arose during its development merit continued discussion.

FMR 61 - ‘Over-researched’ and ‘under-researched’ refugees

Jun 20 2019 13 mins

A number of ethical issues emerge from working with ‘over-researched’ and ‘under-researched’ refugee groups.

FMR 61 - Research fatigue among Rwandan refugees in Uganda

Jun 20 2019 9 mins

Refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement demonstrate research fatigue, yet a return visit by one particular researcher reveals an interesting twist to the tale.

FMR 61 - Over-researching migration ‘hotspots’? Ethical issues from the Carteret Islands

Jun 20 2019 13 mins

The situation of the Carteret Islanders, often characterised as the first ‘climate change refugees’, has attracted much research interest. What is the impact of such interest? And are standard ethics compliance processes appropriate?

FMR 61 - Ethics and accountability in researching sexual violence against men and boys

Jun 20 2019 13 mins

Researching sexual violence against men and boys in humanitarian settings requires navigating multiple ethics- and accountability-related tensions.

FMR 61 - Ethics and consent in settlement service delivery

Jun 20 2019 9 mins

Service providers working in settlement contexts could draw more on research principles in order to better enable new arrivals to understand questions of rights and consent.