Ethical Considerations for Humanizing Refugee Research Trajectories

This paper argues that ethical responsibilities in refugee studies have focused on fieldwork, yet ethics ought to be applied the research problematic—the aims, questions, and concepts—as potentially implicated production of harm. Using an example from Tanzania, I argue policy has largely shaped language, categories investigated, interpretive frames research, this article advocates greater attention historical contemporary processes underpinning humanitarian principles practices, how they might contribute exclusion ontological anxieties among refugees Global South. By expanding our conceptualization responsibilities, researchers can better explore suitability, implications for communities, approach adopted whether or challenge dehumanization people seeking refuge.