Collaborative and Participatory Research to Promote Engagement, Empowerment, and Resilience for Immigrant and Refugee Youth, Families, and Communities

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Introduction to the Special Issue

• Participatory Science as a Decolonizing Methodology: Leveraging Collective Knowledge From Partnerships With Refugee and Immigrant Communities
  Maryam Kia-Keating and Linda P. Juang

Participatory Research and Empowerment With Refugee Communities

• Laying the Groundwork for Participatory Research With a Rohingya Refugee Community
  Anne Saw, Samantha Nau, Rohan D. Jeremiah, and Nasir bin Zakaria
• Piloting Participatory Action Research: Community as Intermediary to Education Pathways of Congolese Refugee Youth
  Odessa Gonzalez Benson, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, James M. Ellis, Mieko Yoshihama, Maki Usui, and Shih-ya Chang
• A Contextualized Perspective on Research Participation in Collaborative Refugee Research: A Multi-Site Exploration of Relational Dynamics in Collaborative Research
  Sofie de Smet, Cécile Rousseau, Nele Deruddere, Ruth Kevers, Caroline Spaas, Lies Missotten, Christel Stalpaert, and Lucia De Haene
• Building Community: Connecting Refugee and Canadian Families
  Catherine L. Costigan, Joelle T. Taknint, Elijah Mudryk, and Bushra Al Qudayri
• Creating Collective Solidarity: Insights From the Development and Process Evaluation of Civic Action for Refugee Empowerment in Cincinnati
  Anjali Dutt, Farrah Jacquez, Nabiha Chaudhary, Bryan Wright, Roshan Adhikari, Tika Adhikari, Amenah Al Shehabi, Maher Arnaout, Muna Bhandari, Hodan Macow, Mels Mbuyi, Manirambona Ernestine, Marembo Alexandre, Yasmine Muhamed, Mwesha Constantin, and Lourdes Santos Martínez de Abughosh
• Somali Migration to the United States: Understanding Adaptation Through Digital Stories
  Moin Syed, Jillian Fish, Jill Hicks, Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla, and Erika Lee
• Partnering With Refugee Communities to Improve Mental Health Access: Going From “Why Are They Not Coming” to “What Can I (We) Do Differently?”
  Saida M. Abdi, Alisa B. Miller, Naima Y. Agalab, and B. Heidi Ellis
• Quad-Dimensional Acculturation, Cultural Integration, and Life Satisfaction of South Sudanese Refugee Young Adults in the United States: A Quasilongitudinal Qualitative Study
  Junghee Yoon, Deborah J. Johnson, Desiree B. Qin, and Laura Bates

Participatory Research and Empowerment With Immigrant Communities

• Innovative Participatory Bilingual Data Analysis With Latinx/@ Immigrants: Language, Power, and Transformation
  Julia Meredith Hess, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman, Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant, Alexis J. Handal, Kimberly Huyser, Margarita Galvis, Dulce Medina, Norma Casas, Mario Javier Chavez, Annette Carreon Fuentes, and Jessica R. Goodkind
• The Adelante Project: Realities, Challenges and Successes in Addressing Health Disparities Among Central American Immigrant Youth
  Mark C. Edberg, Sean D. Cleary, Elizabeth L. Andrade, W. Douglas Evans, Lupi Quinteros-Grady, Rosa Delmy Alvayero, and Angela Gonzalez
• Participation in Multicultural Awareness-Raising Community Actions: Positive Effects on Well-Being and Group Efficacy
  Larraitz N. Zumeta, Magdalena Bobowik, Nekane Basabe, and Anna Wlodarczyk

Youth Participatory Action Research

• “Everyone Collaborated and Came Together”: The Civic Promise (and Pitfalls) of yPAR for Immigrant-Origin Students in an Era of Deportation
  Elena Maker Castro, Guadalupe Lo´pez Hernández, Juliana Karras-Jean Gilles, Alfredo Novoa, The New Generation Class, and Carola Suárez-Orozco
• Toward the Democratization of Knowledge: Using Photovoice, Social Biography, and the “Five Whys” in YPAR With Children
  S. Sylvane Vaccarino-Ruiz, David L. Gordon, and Regina Day Langhout