Reflexive reciprocity under an ethics of care: Reflections from the field for refugee studies

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buir.contributor.authorZadhy-Çepoğlu, Aminath Nisha
buir.contributor.orcidZadhy-Çepoğlu, Aminath Nisha|0000-0003-0714-4632
dc.citation.epage18en_US
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dc.contributor.authorZadhy-Çepoğlu, Aminath Nisha
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-07T10:17:34Z
dc.date.available2024-03-07T10:17:34Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-12
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administration
dc.description.abstractBy bringing reflexivity and reciprocity into conceptual dialogue in a discussion about the ethical framework of care in research, this article discusses how ‘reflexive reciprocity’ can be a research tool in migration studies. Taking reciprocity—the dynamics of giving and receiving—as an aspect contextually bound to the refugee experience, I propose that a relationship of giving and receiving helps undermine the inevitable power asymmetries in knowledge production. Reciprocity becomes all the more essential when researching refugee communities where narratives are prompted in a way that mirrors how refugees are elicited to give information within mechanisms of refugee governance, where they narrate their neediness, perform their vulnerability, and justify their deservingness in return for legal and humanitarian protection in traumatic processes that can be a distortion of the norms of reciprocity. This article invites researchers to address reciprocity in research, premised on the idea that an ethical framework of care should go beyond paying lip service to protect vulnerable and marginalized participants. Reflecting on my case study research with Syrian refugee women in Turkey, Ankara, I argue that reflexive reciprocity is both a tool for more rigorous data collection in a qualitative inquiry and a practical application of an ethical framework of care. In exploring instances where I could link reflexivity to actionoriented reciprocity through ‘everyday acts of caring’, I demonstrate that reflexive reciprocity can somewhat balance out the extractive nature of research and thereby contribute to the ongoing discussion about the ‘reflexive turn’ in migration studies.
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/migration/mnad037
dc.identifier.eissn2049-5846
dc.identifier.issn2049-5838
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11693/114384
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad037
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0 Deed (Attribution 4.0 International)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.titleMigration Studies
dc.subjectReflexivity
dc.subjectSyrian refugee women
dc.subjectEthics of care
dc.subjectReciprocity
dc.subjectRelational ethics
dc.titleReflexive reciprocity under an ethics of care: Reflections from the field for refugee studies
dc.typeArticle

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