Over the past 5 years, immersive media technologies continue to provide new and challenging opportunities for participatory approaches in social sciences. In particular the use of small 360-video cameras for visual ethnographic work provides new innovative research methods for migration research and participatory action research (PAR). This paper describes and analyses the preliminary results of a 6-year research programme entitled 'Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden', led by Gothenburg University in collaboration with Malmö University, Sweden and Bogazici University in Turkey. How does immersive 360-video enhance the ability to understand the Other? This paper aims to give insight into ongoing longterm research on attitudes towards refugees of war, in which participatory 360-video is used as a methodology for ethnographic enquiry with Syrians in Sweden, Turkey and Jordan. The programme implemented a methodology based on the use of immersive 360-video technology for a visual multi-sited ethnographic study on refugee lifeworlds, encounters and conviviality, conducted in three different geographical locations with Syrian refugees. The study makes use of 360-video cameras to capture and document everyday life from the point of view of Syrian refugees in respectively Gothenburg, Sweden, Adana, Turkey and Irbid, Jordan. Providing preliminary conclusions, the author will reflect on building rapport with refugees in the field and various levels of agency and authorship of the research participants.