TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schenck, Marcia C.
A1  - Mohamed Zakaria, Abdalla
A1  - Ndiritiro, Richesse
A1  - Omar, Shaema
A1  - Rer, Samson
A1  - Reed, Kate
A1  - Teferra, Gerawork
T1  - Opportunities and challenges of oral history research through refugee voices, narratives, and memories
BT  - history dialogues
T2  - Global South scholars in the Western Academy
N2  - While academic mobility has generally been positioned in the literature as a ready, at-will movement of people and ideas, this chapter demonstrates how the conditions of mobility and immobility “all at once” impact knowledge production and exchange. By offering a more nuanced window into the experiences of scholars in exile, this chapter challenges dominant discourses of academic mobility and draws on lessons learned from within liminal spaces of knowledge production to elicit more response within higher education communities. Context-rich examples reveal the interpersonal tensions and cultural shifts—including gender, ethnic and race-based stereotypes and discrimination—that affect intellectual outputs, further problematizing the conceptualization of knowledge production in human capital terms. Lessons gleaned from Scholars at Risk (SAR) and related programmes suggest support structures that amplify scholars’ agency; more broadly, higher education should consider ways of adapting to its diverse knowledge producers, rather than supporting the acclimation to its current environment.
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Global South Researchers
KW  - Global History Dialogues Project
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-0-367-62582-5
SN  - 978-1-003-10980-8
SN  - 978-0-367-62584-9
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109808-18
SP  - 171
EP  - 185
PB  - Routledge
CY  - New York
ER  -