Adrift in a Borderland: Experimenting with Participatory and Embodied Methodologies as a Collective of Asylum seekers, Refugees, Civic Activists and Academic Scholars

Tiina Sotkasiira, Sanna Ryynänen, Anni Rannikko and Päivikki Rapo
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Tiina Sotkasiira: University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Sanna Ryynänen: University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Anni Rannikko: University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Päivikki Rapo: Independent Researcher, Finland

Migration Letters, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 10

Abstract: This article examines our on-going attempts to operationalisea critical qualitative research approach –drifting, which we have adopted from the feminist collective Precarias a la deriva,–in order to conduct research with people who have arrived in Finland as asylum seekers and refugees, as well as with the civicactivists who work by their side. Our research focuses on the everyday bordering practices that exclude asylum seekers and refugees,and the activities of de-bordering. The article claims that drifting combines the advantages of mobile research methods with the critical and collective praxis of activist research, which allows the upsurge of non-hegemonic knowledge. Drifting holds great promise for exploring everyday borders and their consequences, which usually remain hidden to the majority of native residents. In drifting, the injustices that occur at borders within countries in Europe are not only exposed for research and the wider public,butthey are also challenged with research-based interventions.

Keywords: borders; drift; drifting; migrants; participatory mobile methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.33182/ml.v17i2.769

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