CENDEP has launched a new Working Paper Series, which will help to present work in progress, preliminary research findings, reviews of literature and theoretical and methodological reflections relevant to the fields of development and emergency practice.
The papers will be published through RADAR (Research And Digital Assets Repository), which is the institutional repository of Oxford Brookes University and be open access under a Creative Commons license.
We are proud to present as our first paper no WP-01-2021, CENDEP’s Kate McAuliff’s work on 'Deaf Refugees: A critical review of the literature'.
'Deaf Refugees: A critical review of the current literature' by Kate McAuliff
The full paper can be accessed at the link below
https://doi.org/10.24384/
Abstract
This working paper presents a critical literature review of the current body of research about deaf refugees; a global population that is largely overlooked. While the literature is limited, this analysis provides insight into what is and is not known and explored about this marginalized demographic. To understand the current research about deaf refugees, an extensive and systematic review of existing literature was conducted. This review resulted in an analysis of how the current literature has largely (A) left multiple contextual gaps regarding deaf refugees, particularly those outside of the global North and (B) has generally limited the understanding of deaf refugees as victims or users within a system or related to an institution, thus overlooking deaf refugee agency. More importantly, this analysis identifies the need for increased research with deaf refugees and increased inclusion of deaf refugee research in the fields of Deaf Studies, Disability Studies, and Refugee Studies.
