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Sharing Pictures, Bridging Barriers: The Use Of Photovoice To Increase Awareness Of Women Refugees Issues In Jakarta, Nissa Cita Adinia, Chandra Kirana

Jurnal Komunikasi Indonesia

This paper is the implementation of Photovoice with women refugees from Roshan Learning Center, an education space for refugees and asylum seekers in Jakarta. Photovoice is one of participatory action research method which is designed to encourage participants to identify and represent their community strength and issues through photographs. This paper describes the result of Photovoice project done with 9 (nine) women refugees members of Roshan Learning Center, in Jakarta. The project aims to explore issues related to women refugees living in a metropolitan Jakarta. Jakarta is interpreted as a place full of social problems such as traffic and poverty. …