Moving images: Psychoanalytically informed visual methods in documenting the lives of women migrants and asylum seekers. (January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Haaken, Janice K; O'Neill, Maggie
• Other Names: Campbell Catherine guest-editor.; Cornish Flora guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of health psychology. Volume 19:Number 1(2014:Jan.)
• Page Start: 79
• Page End: 89
• Publication Date: 2014-01
• Subjects: asylum seekers -- participatory action research -- photovoice -- psychoanalytic-feminist research -- visual methods -- women migrants; Clinical health psychology -- Periodicals; 613.019
• DOI: 10.1177/1359105313500248
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-1053

Abstract

While feminist arts-based projects have gained legitimacy, theory guiding the use of visual images in field research has lagged. Drawing on psychoanalytic-feminist theory and participatory action research methods, the article presents a study carried out with women refugee and asylum seekers that focuses on their experiences in seeking a place of safety in the United Kingdom. The aim was to produce through photography and videography a collective account of asylum as a daily process. In discussing the study, the authors provide a psychoanalytic framework for working through ethical, political, and methodological dilemmas in the use of visual imagery in feminist research.