Ethics in research with refugees and asylum seekers: Processes, power and politics

Forced migration is a growing global issue. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) listed the number of 'people of concern' - comprising refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers and stateless people - at approximately 20 million in 2000, expanding to approximately 34 million people a decade later (UNHCR, 2012). While the majority of the world's refugees flee from, and to, less developed countries, the number of asylum claims in wealthy industrialised countries is also rising.