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ERIC Number: EJ1423217
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1534-6102
EISSN: EISSN-2164-8212
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Refugee-Background Youth Workers as Agents of Social Change: Building Bridging Relationships One Story at a Time
Laura M. Kennedy; Lindsay McHolme; Carrie Symons
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, v28 n1 p97-111 2024
In the context of an established research-practice partnership with the Hope Resource Center, we piloted The Stories Project, a narrative inquiry study alongside refugee-background youth workers and U.S.-born community members. Our inquiry explored the process by which storytelling could be used to humanize and advocate for refugee-background youth in the United States. Data sources included interviews, dialogue session recordings, participant artifacts, and researcher memos. Findings centered the voices of refugee-background youth workers as they honored each other's unique perspectives and life experiences as well as recognized each other's shared humanity. Collectively, the youth workers identified the importance of being vulnerable, humanizing the refugee experience, and building advocacy as ways to promote social change.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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