TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Work Scholarship on Forced Migration
T2 - A Scoping Review
AU - Benson, Odessa Gonzalez
AU - Wachter, Karin
AU - Lee, Jessica
AU - Nichols, Darlene
AU - Hylton, Erica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - This scoping review identifies and analyses historical to present-day contributions of social work scholarship on forced migration, with the aim of reviewing trends and identifying priority areas for the discipline moving forward. This review examined 331 articles related to forced migration published in 40 social work journals over four decades (1978 to 2019). Findings illustrate notable trends in temporal, methodological, topical and geographical dimensions and how those vary by first authors' locations, research sites and study populations. Temporally, the number of articles has been increasing, quadrupling between 2001-2010 and 2011-2019, with 20 social work journals doubling their number of articles. Methodologically, the large majority of articles were qualitative and/or conceptual. Topically, the most common were practice, intervention, health and mental health, while the least common topics included human rights, social justice, poverty, religion, violence, history and theory. Geographically, social work scholarship was mainly focused on refugees in the Global North and third-country resettlement contexts, and authored by scholars in the Global North. Findings thus reveal critical gaps in topics and geographical biases, raising questions related to issues of ethics, power and the production of knowledge about forced migration in the social work academy.
AB - This scoping review identifies and analyses historical to present-day contributions of social work scholarship on forced migration, with the aim of reviewing trends and identifying priority areas for the discipline moving forward. This review examined 331 articles related to forced migration published in 40 social work journals over four decades (1978 to 2019). Findings illustrate notable trends in temporal, methodological, topical and geographical dimensions and how those vary by first authors' locations, research sites and study populations. Temporally, the number of articles has been increasing, quadrupling between 2001-2010 and 2011-2019, with 20 social work journals doubling their number of articles. Methodologically, the large majority of articles were qualitative and/or conceptual. Topically, the most common were practice, intervention, health and mental health, while the least common topics included human rights, social justice, poverty, religion, violence, history and theory. Geographically, social work scholarship was mainly focused on refugees in the Global North and third-country resettlement contexts, and authored by scholars in the Global North. Findings thus reveal critical gaps in topics and geographical biases, raising questions related to issues of ethics, power and the production of knowledge about forced migration in the social work academy.
KW - Forced migration
KW - knowledge production
KW - migrants
KW - refugees
KW - scoping review
KW - social work
KW - social work research
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U2 - 10.1093/bjsw/bcaa081
DO - 10.1093/bjsw/bcaa081
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85121392273
SN - 0045-3102
VL - 51
SP - 2680
EP - 2702
JO - British Journal of Social Work
JF - British Journal of Social Work
IS - 7
ER -