Decolonizing trauma studies: A critically reflexive examination of epistemic trauma and intergenerational memory, and its implications for conflict-fleeing migrant diaspora communities

•The operationalization of PTSD in describing and treating refugees is inadequate.•Applying HT theory & practice necessitates critical consciousness and the absence of neutrality.•Testimonial injustice in refugee claims functions to perpetuate epistemic trauma.•Frame narrative silences as purposeful, political components of intergenerational memory.•Honouring silences is just as important as breaking them.