Refugee Narratives: World University Service's Ethiopian and Eritrean Scholarship Programmes in the Light of Current Practice

难民叙述：世界大学服务中心埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚奖学金计划的现状

• 批准号: 2599842
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2599842
• 关键词: Refugee; Narratives; World; University; Service

The West perceives itself to be confronting a 'refugee crisis' where refugees are viewed as victimslacking agency, as risks to the host society and as resource burdens (Angouri et al, 2018). Refugeeexperience is often construed as static, and the refugee the pawn of external forces and legalframeworks. As Malkki noted (1996: 378), 'humanitarian practices tend to silence refugees', renderingthem passive recipients of others' aid efforts. Refugee research also frequently adopts a structural,governmental, or legal focus which elides the long-term experiences of individual refugees themselves.This project enriches existing work by adopiting a cultural-linguistic approach that, allied to rigoroushistorical study of an earlier refugee context, seeks to address this gap and draw out lessons for bestpractice today.The project focuses on a UK-based programme, World University Service's training scholarships forEthiopians and Eritreans following conflict in these countries (examining the latter half of the 1970sthrough to the 1990s). Through collaboration with ReConnect, it aims to compare this historicalperspective to the experience of refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa in the UK today. The research willgive refugees a voice, analysing the process of their integration into the host society and culture.Specifically, given the educational character of the WUS programme, paralleled by ReConnect's work,3the research will study the qualitative value of intercultural awareness and professional developmentas part of refugees' engagement with a host society.

西方认为自己正面临着一场“难民危机”，难民被视为受害者的代理人，对东道国社会的风险和资源负担（Angouri等人，2018）。难民的经历通常被解释为静态的，难民是外部力量和法律框架的棋子。正如Malkki所指出的（1996：378），“人道主义做法往往使难民沉默”，使他们成为其他援助努力的被动接受者。难民研究也经常采用结构性的、政府的或法律的重点，这忽略了个别难民本身的长期经历。该项目通过采用一种文化-语言的方法丰富了现有的工作，这种方法与对早期难民背景的严格历史研究相结合，旨在解决这一差距，并为今天的最佳做法吸取教训。世界大学服务社为这些国家冲突后的埃塞俄比亚人和厄立特里亚人提供的培训奖学金（审查1970年代后半期至1990年代）。通过与ReConnect的合作，它旨在将这一历史观点与今天在英国的撒哈拉以南非洲难民的经历进行比较。这项研究将让难民发出声音，分析他们融入东道国社会和文化的过程。具体而言，鉴于WUS计划的教育性质，由ReConnect的工作所支持，3这项研究将研究跨文化意识和职业发展的质量价值，作为难民与东道国社会接触的一部分。