Against the backdrop of the concepts of vulnerability, liminality, agency, and resilience, this article presents findings from a participatory study with unaccompanied minors (UMs) who have been processed through the German reception system. Methodologically and epistemologically informed by both participatory research designs and postcolonial studies, the voices of eight UMs echo through this article, pushing these interlocutors beyond objectivation and victimization. As participants, not research objects, they played a vital role in this study’s knowledge production and provided categories and critiques to scrutinize Germany’s forced migration management. The study demonstrates the need for critical literature and research in refugee studies that empower the putative ‘Others’ to speak. It, thus, contributes to the growing field and literature of critical refugee studies with an innovative gaze seeking to define the limitations, challenges, and experiences of UMs in Germany’s reception system.
Following tropes of light and dark in Amanda Gorman’s poem ‘The Hill We Climb’, the article explores, from a feminist perspective, who counts as a truth-teller. Against the backdrop of Hannah Arendt’s and Michel Foucault’s works on truth-telling, the article theorizes feminist modes of truth-telling. It scrutinizes truth-making in politics while unearthing the andro-centrism in truth-telling. Under the impression of post-truth rhetoric in recent populist landscapes, the article argues for a feminist and intersectional articulation of truth-telling to disclose the gendered and racialized power relations in contemporary masculinist populism.
Studien, die Fluchtanalysen explizit als Demokratieforschung denken, sind relativ jung. Ebenso steht die Debatte um eine Demokratisierung der Fluchtforschung selbst erst am Anfang. Der folgende Beitrag bringt eine Auswahl an Ansätzen aus Politischer Philosophie und empirischer Sozialwissenschaft miteinander ins Gespräch, die zur Bearbeitung dieser Problemstellung beitragen können. Im Zentrum der Auseinandersetzungen stehen Fragen nach der politischen Exklusion Geflüchteter, nach den Formen ihrer politischen Partizipation sowie nach den (Un-)Möglichkeiten, die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit dem Thema Flucht selbst partizipativer und damit demokratischer zu gestalten. Wir argumentieren, dass das Wechselverhältnis von Demokratie und Flucht nur im Dialog verschiedener Disziplinen und methodischer Herangehensweisen angemessen bearbeitet werden kann.
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