Participatory Research and Approvals From Indigenous and Internationally Displaced Communities: Identifying Problems and Posing Solutions

• In Event: Participatory Action Research as Remedy and Repair With/in Indigenous, International, and Educational Communities

Abstract

Studies on migratory displacement often fail to accommodate Participatory/Indigenous epistemologies (Rios, Dion, and Leonard 2018). Furthermore, little scholarship explores differences and similarities between international refugees forced to leave their homelands and Indigenous Peoples forcibly removed from ancestral lands and treated as refugees (Arat-Koç 2020). Given these gaps in knowledge, there is a critical need for grassroots approaches tailored to Indigenous and Internationally Displaced Communities (I&IDCs). Using Problem and Solution Trees, this paper presents grassroots-up deliberations from Indigenous and Arabic Heritage college students about support for their heritage languages. These thorough deliberations can be shared with Agents of Change (i.e., public school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education programs) who value students’ diagnoses of problems and recommendations for solutions.

Authors

• Lory Janelle Dance, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Hassan Almokhreq, University of Nebraska - Lincoln