Vulnerability and empowerment: Participatory approaches to health promotion with refugees (EMPOW)

脆弱性与赋权：难民健康促进的参与式方法 (EMPOW)

• 批准号: 427276965
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Hella von Unger
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Soziologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/427276965?language=en
• 关键词: Vulnerability; empowerment; Participatory; approaches; health

Vulnerability is a key concept in public health, facilitating the identification of groups in need of special support and protection. However, in its practical application, the concept unfolds ambivalent effects as it tends to be used as a label reinscribing unequal power-relations, neglecting within-group heterogeneity while underestimating the agency of (members of) the group. The EMPOW project aims to develop the theoretical foundations of the concept of vulnerability further by paying particular attention to individual and collective capabilities for agency and empowerment. A community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach is chosen and refugees are involved as partners and peer researchers. In order to meet the „dual imperative“ of forced migration research, an ethical principle developed in this particular field, the study aims to generate scientific knowledge according to the respective ‘state of the art’ while at the same time striving to benefit the communities involved by improving their situation. In the multi-sited study design, CBPR case studies are conducted in three German cities where participatory approaches to health promotion are developed in a collaborative fashion. Refugees as well as further community partners (including community-based organizations providing health and social services to refugees) are involved in all phases of the research including the cross-case analysis of study findings. In the context of the research unit (PH-LENS), the EMPOW sub-project places an epistemological and methodological focus on the standpoint and participation of refugees. The perspectives and expertise of the various (academic and community) partners will be triangulated in a systematic way to generate novel insights. EMPOW thus promises to produce new knowledge about health-related vulnerability and processes of empowerment, as well as about forms of “benevolent othering”, i.e. well-meaning constructions of refugees as an “other” in helping and support relationships which may also occur in research relationships. EMPOW cooperates with other sub-projects of the research unit, who a) also apply qualitative and participatory research methods (e.g. PROREF), b) whose study instruments and results may be used as teaching material in the peer researcher training (e.g. LARGE), c) who also develop theory on “othering” (e.g. OTHER) and/or d) who investigate similar topics, groups and settings as the EMPOW case studies whose research questions will be defined more specifically as part of the participatory research process.

脆弱性是公共卫生的一个关键概念，有助于确定需要特别支助和保护的群体。然而，在其实际应用中，这一概念表现出矛盾的效果，因为它往往被用来作为一个标签，重新定义不平等的权力关系，忽视组内的异质性，而低估的机构（成员）的组。EMPAW项目旨在进一步发展脆弱性概念的理论基础，特别注意个人和集体的机构和赋权能力。选择了以社区为基础的参与性研究办法，难民作为伙伴和同行研究人员参与。为了满足被迫移徙研究的“双重必要性”，这是在这一特定领域发展的伦理原则，该研究旨在根据各自的“最新技术水平”产生科学知识，同时努力通过改善其状况使所涉社区受益。在多站点的研究设计，CBPR的案例研究进行了三个德国城市的参与性方法，以促进健康的合作方式发展。难民以及其他社区合作伙伴（包括向难民提供保健和社会服务的社区组织）参与了研究的所有阶段，包括对研究结果的跨案例分析。在研究单位（PH-LENS）的范围内，EMPOW分项目在认识论和方法论上侧重于难民的立场和参与。各种（学术和社区）合作伙伴的观点和专业知识将以系统的方式进行三角测量，以产生新的见解。因此，《紧急方案》有望产生关于与健康有关的脆弱性和增强能力进程的新知识，以及关于各种形式的“善意他人”的新知识，即在帮助和支持关系中，难民作为“他人”的善意结构，这也可能发生在研究关系中。该方案与研究股的其他分项目合作，后者a）也采用定性和参与性研究方法（例如PROREF），B）其研究工具和结果可用作同行研究人员培训的教材（例如，大），c）也发展了关于“他者”的理论（如其他）和/或d）调查与EMPOW案例研究类似的主题、群体和背景，其研究问题将作为参与性研究过程的一部分更具体地界定。