Ethical reflexivity of a stumble: Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents

Abstract

The objective of this article is to systematize a process of ethical reflexivity that emerged in a re-search project (Fondecyt) whose purpose was to know the situation of unaccompanied migrant chil-dren and adolescents in Chile. The project was approved with ethical qualms that made it challen-ging to implement participatory methods. This «stumble» gave way to reflexivity. Through a Panel of Experts methodology, we created a self-convened ethics committee (professionals in Law and Psy-chology specializing in childhood) that prepared entry and exit reports with recommendations and protocols and trained the team. In the results, we expose some ethical dilemmas -around informed consent, copyright, and a balance between risks and benefits- identified in the different evaluation instances and the learning derived from it. We end with future lines of research.