Humanizing Refugee Research in a Turbulent World

This essay adopts a critical perspective of the idea humanizing refugee research. It argues that much social scientific research is intrinsically dehumanizing, as it simplifies and reduces human experience to categories models are amenable analysis. Attempts humanize may productively challenge unsettle powerful dominant hegemonic structures frame policy on forced migration. However, replace them with new frameworks, now imbued authority representing more authentic or real-life experiences. Rather than claiming moral high ground research, limited, perhaps honest, ambition should be recognize inevitable dehumanization embedded in seek dehumanize differently.