’Should I <i>really</i> be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure

Participatory Action Research (PAR) has been positioned as a means of addressing the current methodological limits within forced migration studies and sport. Yet, there are challenges in ensuring that PAR achieves its intended aims collaboration, mutual respect, trust, accountability, fairness, social transformation. This article stems from study exploring relationships between sport leisure wellbeing young people refugee backgrounds London, UK. We offer critical discussion two overlapping sensitizing issues our work: (1) developing trust negotiating reciprocal partnerships; (2) navigating ethical dilemmas doing with integrity. argue embedding reflexive approach trusting allows us to collaboratively negotiate these promote benefits may be derived all partners involved through participatory process.