Where Have You Been? Ways of Protecting Refugee Students' Psychological Well-Being After Being Researched

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Abstract

In my dissertation study, young refugee students developed a type of attachment to me because they perceived me as a caregiver. After completing the data collection, I continued communicating with my research participants, but I stopped our communication due to political issues. Two years after my research, I came across a refugee student who participated in my study. Unlike my expectation, he approached me with anger because he felt abandoned after I left school. Later, I communicated with two other participants, and they also felt abandoned when I left. Given that, this qualitative study examines the psychological conditions of refugee students, who felt abandoned after participating in ethnographic research to propose ways to protect refugee students’ psychological well-being after being researched.

Author

• Ozlem Erden-Basaran, TED University