難民キャンプにおけるスポーツを通じた教育支援

抄録

This work studies the role of aid in promoting a sense of self-reliance among refugees and thus reducing the burden on asylum countries. It is thought that asylum countries’ increasing acceptance of refugees can increase the number of refugee-related demands. In the case of refugee camps, sports activities have been used to promote self-reliance among refugee youth through life skills education. This paper aims to clarify the ideal way to support education through sports in refugee camps in order to implement activities that promote a sense of self-reliance among refugees.

The study took place from September 2015 to December 2015 by Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in the Zaatari Refugee Camps in Jordan. As a result the members of CBPR recognized the issues in the refugee camp, were able to use grassroots methods to implement education activities with a sense of ownership through CBPR, such as sharing education and youth related issues. However, they could not approach and try to solve the issues because they were pursued by evaluators and inspectors.

This study shows that aid organizations tend to implement temporary sports events and evaluate their effect in order to fulfill their accountability requirements to donors. This does not promote refugees’ self-reliant behavior, which enable them to analyze local issues and take action even while being extremely vulnerable. In other words, providing educational support through sports in refugee camps, the ideal is not to give the aid to refugees, but to arrange a mechanism which refugees can make the own program by themselves. That is effective for local educational programs and it would contribute towards fostering a sense of independence and ownership in refugees.