Case Studies of Oral Histories with Host Communities

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In this chapter we see the importance of formally listening to host communities’ concerns as well as to those of refugees. As in the previous chapter, these case studies with host communities have been chosen for the diversity of methods and impacts that they illustrate. Coming from Africa, the Middle East, South America, the US and Europe, these seven sets of applied oral histories with host communities have been used, respectively: to get beyond stereotypes; as a two-way dialogue for conflict mediation; to discover specific grievances; to review what went wrong in a failed refugee resettlement program; to uncover the poorest hosts’ coping strategies; to study refugees who host other refugees; to listen to far-right anti-migrant voters in the West; and to tackle prejudice in such host communities head-on. Each case study is followed by a prompt that invites readers to now start imagining how they could do such a project themselves, where they are. This starts building readers’ confidence for the ensuing how-to chapters, which will coach them through every detail of doing their own project.

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