Life Histories and Action Research
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https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21504Keywords:
life histories, action research, qualitative methods, refugee womenAbstract
Responding to Doreen Indra's comments on the research paradigm, one strategy for keeping gender issues central to refugee issues is the collection of life histories of refugee women of different ages and backgrounds. These biographies document life changes and significant events in these women's lives in their birthplaces, in the camps, and in the country of asylum. Viewing the refugee process from the perspective of individual women's lives provides another approach to complement more quantitative research. After collecting a number of representative biographies, analysts could look for common themes and issues emerging from the life histories. In this way we could interpret events through their impact on local communities and specific individuals.
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