Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory Approaches
Adopting a critically reflexive approach, we contribute to discussions on how participatory approaches, and peer research specifically, can be implemented, problematising the boundaries, opportunities and implication of the participation of young people from marginalised groups in research projects....
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| description | Adopting a critically reflexive approach, we contribute to discussions on how participatory approaches, and peer research specifically, can be implemented, problematising the boundaries, opportunities and implication of the participation of young people from marginalised groups in research projects. We achieve this goal through three consecutive steps. First, we present the peer research approach in theory. Here, drawing on the wider literature, we critically engage with concepts of vulnerability, positionality and questions of inclusive participation and empowerment. Second, presenting concrete examples and lessons learned from our experiences with a multi-national project, we consider the practical obstacles, critical considerations, and advantageous outcomes associated with the inclusion of young migrants as peer researchers in this large European project. Third, we examine the accounts of a group of peer researchers to critically reflect on what characterises their participatory experiences and their impact, adopting the notion of vulnerability reconceptualised as an analytical lens. In the conclusion, we summarise key insights presented in our paper and offer some final reflections.
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| spelling | doaj-art-41dc00db58d747bfab48c20f9063d07f2025-08-20T03:05:22ZdeuFQSForum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272025-05-0126210.17169/fqs-26.2.4276Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory ApproachesAmalia Gilodi0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7024-7488Louise Ryan1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1386-7212Zeynep Aydar2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9932-7235University of Luxembourg / Radboud UniversityLondon Metropolitan UniversityUniversity of HildesheimAdopting a critically reflexive approach, we contribute to discussions on how participatory approaches, and peer research specifically, can be implemented, problematising the boundaries, opportunities and implication of the participation of young people from marginalised groups in research projects. We achieve this goal through three consecutive steps. First, we present the peer research approach in theory. Here, drawing on the wider literature, we critically engage with concepts of vulnerability, positionality and questions of inclusive participation and empowerment. Second, presenting concrete examples and lessons learned from our experiences with a multi-national project, we consider the practical obstacles, critical considerations, and advantageous outcomes associated with the inclusion of young migrants as peer researchers in this large European project. Third, we examine the accounts of a group of peer researchers to critically reflect on what characterises their participatory experiences and their impact, adopting the notion of vulnerability reconceptualised as an analytical lens. In the conclusion, we summarise key insights presented in our paper and offer some final reflections. https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4276participatory approachespeer researchmigrationreflexivity vulnerability |
| spellingShingle | Amalia Gilodi Louise Ryan Zeynep Aydar Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory Approaches Forum: Qualitative Social Research participatory approaches peer research migration reflexivity vulnerability |
| title | Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory Approaches |
| title_full | Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory Approaches |
| title_fullStr | Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory Approaches |
| title_full_unstemmed | Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory Approaches |
| title_short | Peer Research in a Multi-National Project With Migrant Youth: Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Participatory Approaches |
| title_sort | peer research in a multi national project with migrant youth re thinking vulnerability and participatory approaches |
| topic | participatory approaches peer research migration reflexivity vulnerability |
| url | https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4276 |
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