Élargir notre horizon en travail social : saisir l’expérience de personnes réfugiées à travers une perspective transnationale et intersectionnelle

autrices de personnes réfugiées Syrie. résultats empiriques réinterrogés partir angles morts repérés recherche documenter personnes provenance Syrie programme de parrainage collectif. perspective nationale transnationale intersectionnelle. ABSTRACT: This article seeks to contribute to the development of a transnational and intersectional perspective of social work in order to broaden our understanding of the refugee experience. Carried out by the authors, this exercise was based on a critical review of research they conducted since 2016 with refugees from Syria. First, the empirical results will be reinterrogated based on “blind spots” identified in the context of a research project that sought to document the experiences of refugees from Syria who settled in Québec through the private sponsorship program. The second part of the paper will discuss how this first project proved to be a turning point that led the researchers to broaden their national perspective towards a transnational and intersectional approach. This broadening resulted in two new research projects rooted beyond the borders of the nation-state following seminal works (including those of Glick Schiller, Basch & Blanc-Szanton, 1992; Wimmer & Glick Schiller, 2002) a well as the invitation to challenge “methodological nationalism” (see, for example, Levitt and Jaworsky’s, 2007). The article asks the following question: How can this invitation to researchers also be applied to the practices of social workers involved locally as well as internationally? Our argument will support how a transnational and intersectional perspective can deepen an understanding of the complex pathways of refugees through the networks and alterstices they negotiate.