Bangla Stories: telling community histories about migration and belonging

孟加拉故事：讲述有关移民和归属感的社区历史

• 批准号: AH/J002879/1
• 负责人: Claire Alexander
• 金额: $ 9.56万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ002879%2F1
• 关键词: Bangla; Stories; telling; community; histories

The 'Bangla Stories' website was developed in 2009 as a partnership between the research team on the AHRC funded 'Bengal diaspora' project and the Runnymede Trust. The 'Bengal diaspora' was a three year research project exploring the histories and experiences of migration from the Indian state of Bengal in the period after Partition in 1947. This migration was one of the largest of modern times, with an estimated 20 million people - Muslim and Hindu- displaced through Partition and subsequent natural disasters, wars and social and economic hardships. The research combined historical, sociological and anthropological theories and methods to consider why and how people migrated and how they made homes for themselves and their families in new and unfamiliar places. The project focused primarily on Bengali Muslim migrants, about whom less is known, but who accounted for the majority of Bengali migrants to Britain in the post-war years. Working in India, Bangladesh and Britain, the project team collected over 180 life histories of migrants, along with family trees and photographs, which provided a unique and intimate portrait of the experience of migration 'from below'. These stories shed new light on the way in which history and migration is lived, on the resources and experiences of a particular group of migrants in 'the Age of Migration', and on processes of social exclusion and multiculturalism in places of settlement in South Asia and the United Kingdom. The 'Bangla Stories' website was developed in partnership with the Runnymede Trust, Britain's foremost race equality think tank, as a way of bringing these stories outside the academy and into the classrooms of the next generation of British schoolchildren. The aim was to enable young people, of whatever background, to understand both the broad flow of history and movement which shapes their world, their country, their city and their neighbourhood, and the individual, family and community histories that form part of these events. Told through the personal stories of eight migrants, from India, Bangladesh and Britain, who migrated at different times and for different reasons, the website provides a portal through which to view processes of migration and multiculturalism. Drawing on the established expertise of Runnymede, the website presents complex stories and histories in accessible and engaging ways, providing young people with the interest and the skills to engage with their own family and community histories, and to encourage them to talk to their parents and grandparents about their experiences of migration and of change. Although focused on the Bengali Muslim communities, the website and accompanying educational resource pack provides an exemplary template for engaging with young people in Britain, at Key Stage 3, with broader issues of relevance to a range of curricula, including history, citizenship, geography and English language. The current project builds on this important and unique resource to 'roll out' the work through school based workshops and community events to encourage young people and local communities to research and narrate their own personal and community histories. Working across the school year, the original research team and Runnymede will conduct workshops disseminating the project findings and community history methods across the country, and opening up constructive dialogue around Britishness, multiculturalism and belonging. The project will also develop the Bangla Stories website to make it more interactive with young people in local communities, and, drawing on Runnymede's groundbreaking Generation 3.0 project, will develop a series of video archives and booklets which tell these local migration histories. We will also engage with policymakers and other academics around the process of dissemination of research, and engaging with national debates around migration and citizenship, as well as educational curricula in an age of migration.

“孟加拉故事”网站于2009年开发，是由澳大利亚人权委员会资助的“孟加拉侨民”项目研究小组和Runnymede信托基金合作开发的。“孟加拉侨民”是一个为期三年的研究项目，探索1947年印度分治后从孟加拉国移民的历史和经验。这是现代最大的移民之一，估计有2 000万人-穆斯林和印度教徒-因分治和随后的自然灾害、战争以及社会和经济困难而流离失所。这项研究结合了历史学、社会学和人类学的理论和方法，以考虑人们为什么和如何移徙，以及他们如何在新的和不熟悉的地方为自己和家人安家。该项目主要关注孟加拉穆斯林移民，对他们知之甚少，但他们占战后孟加拉移民到英国的大多数。项目小组在印度、孟加拉国和英国工作，收集了180多个移民的生活史，沿着家谱和照片，为“从下面”移民的经历提供了独特而亲密的写照。这些故事揭示了历史和移民的生活方式，“移民时代”特定移民群体的资源和经历，以及南亚和联合王国定居点的社会排斥和多元文化进程。“孟加拉故事”网站是与英国最重要的种族平等智库Runnymede Trust合作开发的，旨在将这些故事带到学院之外，并进入下一代英国学童的课堂。其目的是使青年人，无论其背景如何，都能了解塑造他们的世界、国家、城市和社区的历史和运动的广泛流动，以及构成这些活动一部分的个人、家庭和社区历史。该网站通过来自印度、孟加拉国和英国的八名移民的个人故事讲述他们在不同时间出于不同原因移徙，提供了一个门户网站，通过该门户网站可以了解移徙和多元文化的进程。该网站利用Runnymede的既有专业知识，以易于理解和参与的方式介绍复杂的故事和历史，为年轻人提供了解自己家庭和社区历史的兴趣和技能，并鼓励他们与父母和祖父母谈论他们的移徙和变革经历。虽然专注于孟加拉穆斯林社区，该网站和配套的教育资源包提供了一个示范性的模板，在英国的年轻人参与，在关键阶段3，与相关的一系列课程，包括历史，公民身份，地理和英语更广泛的问题。目前的项目建立在这一重要和独特的资源，通过以学校为基础的讲习班和社区活动“推出”的工作，鼓励年轻人和当地社区研究和叙述自己的个人和社区的历史。在整个学年的工作，原来的研究团队和Runnymede将在全国范围内传播项目的研究结果和社区历史方法，并围绕英国，多元文化和归属感开放建设性对话。该项目还将开发孟加拉故事网站，使其与当地社区的年轻人更具互动性，并借鉴Runnymede开创性的3.0代项目，将开发一系列视频档案和小册子，讲述当地的移民历史。我们还将与政策制定者和其他学者围绕研究的传播过程进行接触，并参与有关移民和公民身份的国家辩论，以及移民时代的教育课程。

项目成果

History lessons: inequality, diversity and the national curriculum

历史课程：不平等、多样性和国家课程

• DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2017.1294571
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Race Ethnicity and Education
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Alexander C

Making British Histories: Diversity and the National Curriculum

创造英国历史：多样性和国家课程

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Alexander, C.