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Nine Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees
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Abstract
This chapter addresses the need to clarify how qualitative research is conducted in the field. It identifies the barriers and challenges which the researchers face, including the measures that are needed to overcome them. The chapter demonstrates that extreme barriers to participation can be overcome, and also encourages researchers in less-challenging research settings to use measures which are designed to guide access to the research process.
Abstract
This chapter addresses the need to clarify how qualitative research is conducted in the field. It identifies the barriers and challenges which the researchers face, including the measures that are needed to overcome them. The chapter demonstrates that extreme barriers to participation can be overcome, and also encourages researchers in less-challenging research settings to use measures which are designed to guide access to the research process.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and photographs vii
- Foreword viii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgements x
- Notes on contributors xi
- Introduction 1
- Refugees as researchers: experiences from the project ‘Bridges and fences: paths to refugee integration in the EU’ 21
- Limited exchanges: approaches to involving people who do not speak English in research and service development 37
- Breaking the silence: participatory research processes about health with Somali refugee people seeking asylum 55
- Home/lessness as an indicator of integration: interviewing refugees about the meaning of home and accommodation 75
- The community leader, the politician and the policeman: a personal perspective 97
- Complexity and community empowerment in regeneration, 2002-04 111
- Refugee voices as evidence in policy and practice 133
- Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees 155
- Why religion matters 167
- Action learning: a research approach that helped me to rediscover my integrity 183
- Appendix: Guidelines funded through the Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series ‘Eliciting the views of refugee people seeking asylum’ 203
- Index 207
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and photographs vii
- Foreword viii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgements x
- Notes on contributors xi
- Introduction 1
- Refugees as researchers: experiences from the project ‘Bridges and fences: paths to refugee integration in the EU’ 21
- Limited exchanges: approaches to involving people who do not speak English in research and service development 37
- Breaking the silence: participatory research processes about health with Somali refugee people seeking asylum 55
- Home/lessness as an indicator of integration: interviewing refugees about the meaning of home and accommodation 75
- The community leader, the politician and the policeman: a personal perspective 97
- Complexity and community empowerment in regeneration, 2002-04 111
- Refugee voices as evidence in policy and practice 133
- Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees 155
- Why religion matters 167
- Action learning: a research approach that helped me to rediscover my integrity 183
- Appendix: Guidelines funded through the Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series ‘Eliciting the views of refugee people seeking asylum’ 203
- Index 207
