ABSTRACT

This article comprises a short case exemplifying ethical challenges arising for a participatory researcher working with Afghan women refugees during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The researcher is an Iranian-German woman, qualified as a midwife, undertaking doctoral research on refugees’ access to reproductive health care. Disclosures about some women’s experience of domestic violence are made, which raise ethical issues for the researcher relating to personal-professional boundaries, roles and responsibilities. Two commentaries are given on this case from participatory researchers based in Germany, UK and Austria. Both commentaries highlight the relevance of the ethics of care for participatory research and for this research in particular, which entails very close relationships between the doctoral researcher and the refugee women with whom she is researching. The first commentary analyses the research process in terms of Tronto’s five phases of care, while the second illustrates the importance of caring institutions in supporting researchers working on sensitive topics.

摘要

本文包含一个简短的案例，举例说明了一位参与式研究人员在德国 Covid-19 大流行期间与阿富汗女性难民一起工作时遇到的道德挑战。该研究人员是一名伊朗裔德国女性，拥有助产士资格，从事难民获得生殖保健服务的博士研究。一些妇女遭受家庭暴力的经历被披露，这给研究人员带来了与个人职业界限、角色和责任有关的道德问题。来自德国、英国和奥地利的参与研究人员对此案例给出了两条评论。这两篇评论都强调了护理伦理对于参与性研究，特别是对于本研究的相关性，这需要博士研究员和她正在研究的难民妇女之间建立非常密切的关系。第一篇评论根据 Tronto 的五个护理阶段分析了研究过程，而第二篇评论则说明了护理机构在支持研究敏感主题的研究人员方面的重要性。