Ethics and displacement (Forced Migration Review 61‪)‬ Oxford University

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

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

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.

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

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

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