| SPECIAL SECTION: FIELD REPORT |
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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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Creating existential spaces: what do oral history interviews held with Syrian refugee men tell us?
Isinsu Koc
MA in Oriental Studies and BA in Political Sciences and Sociology and Humanitarian Worker, Istanbul, Turkey
Correspondence Address:
Isinsu Koc
Istanbul/Turkey
Turkey
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/INTV.INTV_47_18
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The dominant narratives on refugees evolve around vulnerability and trauma discourse that homogenizes a whole group of individuals as traumatized, therefore, vulnerable, as they exposed to an adversity. It is the self-narratives of refugees that reveal the complexity, uniqueness and totality of each person’s experience that can object to this passivation. Oral history in this respect stands as a crucial tool as it creates spaces of existence where refugees can speak freely about their own life stories to the extent and content she/he desires. This small research is a naïve attempt to apply life history approach, and oral history as one of its methodological tool, to psycho-social support at the intersection with refugee studies. Although evolved in different paradigms, this research aims to demonstrate that oral history can also empower refugees since their self-narratives stand as valid sources of reality to challenge the above mentioned discourses, now and then.
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