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

西方认为自己正面临着一场“难民危机”，难民被视为受害者、懒散的机构、对收容社会的风险和资源负担(Angouri等人，2018年)。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。正如马尔基(1996：378)所指出的，“人道主义做法往往使难民沉默”，使他们成为他人援助努力的被动接受者。难民研究也经常采用结构、政府或法律的重点，而不是个别难民本身的长期经历。该项目通过采用文化-语言方法丰富现有工作，与对早期难民背景的严格历史研究相结合，试图解决这一差距，并为今天的最佳实践吸取教训。该项目重点是设在英国的一个项目，即世界大学服务处为埃塞俄比亚人和厄立特里亚人在这些国家发生冲突后提供的培训奖学金(审查1970年代后半期至1990年代)。通过与ReConnect的合作，它旨在将这种历史视角与当今英国撒哈拉以南非洲难民的经历进行比较。这项研究将给予难民发言权，分析他们融入东道国社会和文化的过程。具体地说，鉴于WUS方案的教育特点，与ReConnect的工作相平行，3这项研究将研究作为难民与东道国社会接触的一部分，跨文化意识和专业发展的质量价值。

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.