Practicing Oral History among Refugees and Host Communities provides a comprehensive and practical guide to applied oral history with refugees teaching the reader how to use applied contemporary oral history to help provide solutions to the âmega-problemâ that is the worldwide refugee crisis. The book surveys the history of the practice and explains its successful applications in fields from journalism law and psychiatry to technology the prevention of terrorism and the design of public services. It defines applied oral history with refugees as a field teaching rigorous accessible methodologies for doing it as well as outlining the importance of doing the same work with host communities. The book examines important legal and ethical parameters around this complex sensitive field and highlights the cost-effective sustainable benefits that are being drawn from this work at all levels. It outlines the sociopolitical and theoretical frameworks around such oral histories and the benefits for practitionersâ future careers. Both in scope and approach it thoroughly equips readers for doing their own oral history projects with refugees or host communities wherever they are. Using innovative case studies from seven continents and from the authorâs own work this manual is the ideal guide for oral historians and those working with refugees or host communities. . Language: English