What moral principles guide our work? This issue debates many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images. We each live according to our own personal code of ethics but what moral principles guide our work? The 19 feature theme articles in this issue debate many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images. Prepare to be enlightened, unsettled and challenged. This issue is being published in tribute to Barbara Harrell-Bond, founder of the Refugee Studies Centre and FMR, who died in July 2018. In a special collection of articles in this issue, authors discuss the legacy of Barbara Harrell-Bond – the impact she had and its relevance for our work today. This issue of FMR will be available online and in print in English and Arabic: www.fmreview.org/ethics

Ethics and displacement (Forced Migration Review 61)

FMR 61 - From the Editors

Donors’ thirst for data is increasingly undermining security and confidentiality, putting both survivors of violence and staff at risk.

FMR 61 - Big data, little ethics: confidentiality and consent

States are keen to explore the use of new technologies in migration management, yet greater oversight and accountability mechanisms are needed in order to safeguard fundamental rights.

FMR 61 - New technologies in migration: human rights impacts

The growing use of data gathered from social media in asylum claim assessments raises critical yet underexplored ethical questions.

FMR 61 - Social media screening: Norway’s asylum system

The IASFM has agreed an international code of ethics to guide research with displaced people. Challenges that arose during its development merit continued discussion.

FMR 61 - Developing ethical guidelines for research

A number of ethical issues emerge from working with ‘over-researched’ and ‘under-researched’ refugee groups.

FMR 61 - ‘Over-researched’ and ‘under-researched’ refugees

Refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement demonstrate research fatigue, yet a return visit by one particular researcher reveals an interesting twist to the tale.

FMR 61 - Research fatigue among Rwandan refugees in Uganda

The situation of the Carteret Islanders, often characterised as the first ‘climate change refugees’, has attracted much research interest. What is the impact of such interest? And are standard ethics compliance processes appropriate?

FMR 61 - Over-researching migration ‘hotspots’? Ethical issues from the Carteret Islands

Researching sexual violence against men and boys in humanitarian settings requires navigating multiple ethics- and accountability-related tensions.

FMR 61 - Ethics and accountability in researching sexual violence against men and boys

Service providers working in settlement contexts could draw more on research principles in order to better enable new arrivals to understand questions of rights and consent.

FMR 61 - Ethics and consent in settlement service delivery

As humanitarian agencies increasingly follow the example of academia in establishing ethics review committees, one such agency reflects on the benefits and drawbacks.

FMR 61 - Ethical primary research by humanitarian actors

EU migration policies are undermining basic humanitarian principles and making it more difficult for humanitarian actors to uphold their ethical commitments.

FMR 61 - EU migration strategy: compromising principled humanitarian action

When MSF recently piloted travel medicine services for people travelling along migration routes in Greece, various ethical challenges and moral dilemmas emerged.

FMR 61 - A humanitarian approach to travel medicine?

The humanitarian community needs to develop a better shared understanding of how to provide principled assistance in areas controlled by proscribed groups.

FMR 61 - Principled humanitarian assistance and non-State armed groups

What ethical dilemmas affect humanitarian agencies’ responses to fraudulent behaviour by persons of concern? And how might refugee community structures be more involved in defining responses?

FMR 61 - Ethical dilemmas posed by unethical behaviour by persons of concern

We each live according to our own personal code of ethics but what moral principles guide our work? The 19 feature theme articles in this issue debate many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images. Prepare to be enlightened, unsettled and challenged. This issue is being published in tribute to Barbara Harrell-Bond, founder of the Refugee Studies Centre and FMR, who died in July 2018: www.fmreview.org/ethics

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Ethics and displacement (Forced Migration Review 61)

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