On the Borders: Research with Refugees of Conflict
On the Borders: Research with Refugees of Conflict
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边界：冲突难民研究
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-030-44113-5_8
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发表时间：
2020
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J. Drury
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作者：
Khalifah Alfadhli;J. Drury
本章概述了在约旦北部边界附近的城市环境中对叙利亚难民进行的长达八个月的民族志研究。其目的是探索如何跨越边界不仅仅是一个从风险到安全的过程，而且还改变了人们看待自己和他人的方式。具体地说，目的是捕捉流亡难民社区形成的特征，在这种情况下，社会群体之间以前的边界开始缩小，新的边界出现，将那些奋斗的人聚集在一起。通过这一章，第一作者将讨论他作为一个来自中东的人的经历，他以前有过武装冲突的经历，但仍然在努力以该地区的外国人可能意想不到的方式进行实地考察。这项民族志研究于2015年9月至2016年5月在边境附近的伊尔比德市举行，该社区名为“Dara‘a”，以难民所在的叙利亚地区命名，那里收容了13万多名叙利亚难民。第一位作者有机会通过志愿在一所学校任教而扎根于这一社区，并住在这个社区旁边。对实地工作经验的概述将包括讨论选择地点的准备工作和决定的逻辑、获得准入、描述环境和嵌入过程的气氛、数据收集过程，最后是从经验中吸取的经验教训。
This chapter overviews an eight-months long ethnography with Syrian refugees in an urban setting near the northern borders of Jordan. The aim was to explore how crossing borders is not just a process of moving from risk to safety, but changes how people see themselves and others. Specifically, the aim was to capture features of the refugees’ community formation in exile, where the previous borders between social groups start to diminish and new borders arise to bring together those who struggle together. Through this chapter, the first author will discuss his own experiences as a person from the Middle East, with previous experience with armed conflict, but still struggling to navigate fieldwork in ways that might be unexpected to foreigners to the region. The ethnography took place from September 2015 to May 2016 in Irbid city by the borders, in a neighborhood known as “Dara’a,” named after the Syrian region that the refugee residents come from, which hosts more than 130,000 Syrian refugees. The first author had the chance to embed himself in the neighborhood by volunteering to teach in a school and lived next to this neighborhood. This overview of the fieldwork experience will include a discussion of preparations and logic of decisions to choose the location, getting access, description of the atmosphere of the setting and the embedding process, the data collection process, and finally, lessons learned from the experience.