Creative (en)counterspaces: Engineering valuable contact for young refugees via solidarity arts workshops in Thessaloniki, Greece
Creative (en)counterspaces: Engineering valuable contact for young refugees via solidarity arts workshops in Thessaloniki, Greece
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创意(en)柜台空间:通过希腊塞萨洛尼基的团结艺术研讨会为年轻难民建立宝贵的联系
DOI:
10.1093/migration/mnad016
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Hunt L
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文献类型:
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作者:
Hunt L
This article explores the role of non-formal arts education in Thessaloniki, Greece for fostering contact considered valuable by the young refugee community. Drawing on accounts of their daily life, gathered over eight months of ethnographic fieldwork for a project on their post-15 educational participation, the article details how around the city, young refugees (aged 15–25 years) experience conflicted encounters involving both hostility and solidarity. While this hostility impacts their aspirations, self-image, and feelings of inclusion, a large solidarity movement attempts to counteract these challenges by offering educational activities for ‘inclusion’ such as arts workshops in temporary spaces. These offers were popular among youth in the study, as they constituted a welcoming opportunity for building social connections, language skills, and self-confidence—outcomes that extended beyond the physical space of the workshops. As such, they functioned as valuable, creative ‘(en)counterspaces’. Based on observations from one case study site, this article unpacks the key processes that promoted these valued outcomes—including collaboration, mediation, and informal contact—as well as the role played by arts materials and arts-making practices in these processes. This article also offers key considerations for designing similar activities, such as being sensitive to inclusivity and power relations. It aims to build on the literature on both ‘counterspaces’ and ‘encounters’ by documenting the outcomes young refugees value from contact in these sites of solidarity, and how and why they proactively seek them out; as well as analysing the other actors and specific activities involved in them.
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影响因子:
1
作者:
Zachary Whyte
通讯作者:
Zachary Whyte
影响因子:
2.5
作者:
C. Listerborn
通讯作者:
C. Listerborn
DOI:
10.1386/cjmc.10.1.3_1
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
Journal of Migration & Culture
影响因子:
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作者:
Jeffery L
通讯作者:
Jeffery L
影响因子:
1
作者:
Synnøve Bendixsen;Trygve Wyller
通讯作者:
Trygve Wyller
影响因子:
1
作者:
L. B. Christiansen;Lise Paulsen Galal;Kirsten Hvenegaard
通讯作者:
Kirsten Hvenegaard