Mobilizing Global Knowledge - by Susan McGrath & Julie E E Young (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have become increasingly politicized and sensationalized, researchers have come together to form regional and global networks dedicated to working with displaced people to learn how to respond to their needs ethically, compassionately, and for the best interests of the global community.

Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together academics and practitioners to reflect on a global collaborative refugee research network. Together, the members of this network have had a wide-ranging impact on research and policy, working to bridge silos, sectors, and regions. They have addressed power and politics in refugee research, engaged across tensions between the Global North and Global South, and worked deeply with questions of practice, methodology, and ethics in refugee research.

Bridging scholarship on network building for knowledge production and scholarship on research with and about refugees, Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together a vibrant collection of topics and perspectives. It addresses ethical methods in research practice, the possibilities of social media for data collection and information dissemination, environmental displacement, transitional justice, and more. This is essential reading for anyone interested in how to create and share knowledge to the benefit of the millions of people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes.

Review Quotes

Thirteen insightful essays explore the value and challenges of working across disciplines, sectors, and regions . . . Highly Reccomended

--G.B. Osbourne, CHOICE Reviews

About the Author

Susan McGrath is professor emerita and senior scholar at the School of Social Work and Centre for Refugee Studies, York University. She has been invested with the Order of Canada in recognition of her outstanding achievement in research and policy on refugee rights.

Julie E. E. Young is Canada Research Chair in Critical Border Studies and assistant professor in the Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge. Her work has been published in the Journal of International Migration and Integration, Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, and Environment & Planning D: Society and Space.

With Contributions By: Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Paula Banerjee, Pablo Bose, Nergis Canefe, Christina Clark-Kazak, Don Dippo, Wenona Giles, Susan Kneebone, Ellen Percy Kraly, Loren B. Landau, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Susan F. Martin, Susan McGrath, Michele Millard, Petra Molnar, William J. Payne, Ranabir Samaddar, Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez-Mojica, James C. Simeon, Lisa Singh, Brittany Lauren Wheeler, and Julie E.E. Young