Participatory Artsbased Methods For Civic Engagement In Migrant Support Organizations

在先前的研究“移民母亲对未来的关怀：创造性干预公民身份”AH/K00591X/1中，我们成功地开发了移民学术知识公民身份的创造性方法。在此期间，第三部门组织强烈表示需要培训，以便在自己的实践中使用这些创造性的参与式方法。这个后续项目为第三部门组织的实践调整了理论和方法模型，以鼓励移民在移民融合问题上的公民参与。该项目将培训伦敦和英格兰北部四个移民支持组织的24名员工，让他们使用创造性的参与式方法进行公民参与，我们之前的研究已经证明这种方法是有效的。通过为60个移民家庭举办60小时的公民参与讲习班（每个移民参加12小时的讲习班），为经常被边缘化或被排除在公共审议之外的这一群体创造一种新的公民参与方法和实用模式，从而产生影响。创造性的参与式方法使边缘化移民及其家人能够参与并交流他们的经验和观点，因为他们不需要流利的英语语言知识。公民参与研讨会将允许移民家庭解决直接影响他们的问题。通过培训移民支持组织的工作人员和评估这一过程，该项目将通过加强移民支持组织的能力和培养移民家庭的技能，创造可持续的方式，将这些创新的公民参与方法推广到社区。该项目还将制作一部短片，以确保能够更广泛地传播向移民支助组织学习的经验。基于学术界、参与性艺术以及移民和家庭支持组织之间的密切跨部门合作，该项目将为移民的公民参与创造附加值，这是一个部门无法单独实现的。移民支持组织和移民家庭是该项目的主要利益相关者和受益者。创造性公民参与方法的可持续性是该项目的核心目标，将通过对移民支持组织的24名工作人员的“培训培训师方案”（2个12小时）和有60名来自移民家庭的参与者的讲习班，对利益攸关方进行创造性参与方法的培训，以加强移民的公民参与，从而实现这一目标。20个公民参与讲习班（60人参加，每人参加12小时）将有助于克服民主赤字，即社会中最边缘化的阶层往往被排除在公共领域和审议民主进程之外，导致有争议的或有时不负责任的专业做法和决策。该项目还解决了移民融合政策的需求，以加强移民融入协商民主进程，特别是年轻人和妇女（Casey Review 2016）。参与式创新方法对此特别有效。主要目标：-在移民支持组织中建立能力，开发和实施创造性的、参与性的方法，使移民家庭参与并融入社会。-通过提供参与影响移民家庭的政策问题的机会来改善他们的生活，包括移民和融合政策和平等问题（种族，性别，能力，性）-促进移民家庭，法定和第三部门组织之间的可持续参与，以扩大对其如何影响生活经验的公开辩论-为移民倡导组织创建培训计划；通过短片和工具包分享，供其他团体将来使用。

In previous research 'Migrant Mothers Caring for the Future: Creative Interventions into Citizenship' AH/K00591X/1 we successfully developed creative methods for migrants' citizenship for academic knowledge. During this, third sector organizations expressed a strong need for training to use these creative participatory methods in their own practice. This follow-on project adapts the theoretical and methodological model for third sector organizations' practice to encourage migrants' civic engagement on issues of migrant integration. The project will train 24 staff in four migrant support organizations in London and the North of England in using creative participatory methods for civic engagement, which our prior research has demonstrated to be effective. It will develop impact by creating a new methodological and practical model of civic engagement for this group, which is often marginalized or excluded from public deliberation, through 60 hours of civic engagement workshops for 60 migrant families (each migrant participating in 12 hours of workshop). Creative participatory methods allow marginalized migrants and their families to engage and communicate their experiences and viewpoints because they do not require fluent English language knowledge. The civic engagement workshops will allow migrant families to address issues directly affecting them. By training staff in migrant support organizations and evaluation of the process, the project will create sustainable ways to cascade these innovative civic engagement methods in communities by enhancing capacity among migrant support organizations and building skills among migrant families. The project will also produce a short film to ensure learning from the migrant support organizations can be more widely disseminated. Based on close cross-sector collaboration between academics, participatory arts and migrant and family support organizations the project will create added value for migrants' civic engagement that could not be delivered by one sector on its own. Migrant support organizations and migrant families are key stakeholders and beneficiaries of this project.Sustainability of creative civic engagement methods is a project core aim which will be achieved by training stakeholders in creative participatory methods for enhancing migrants' civic engagement through 'training the trainers programmes' (2x 12 hours) for 24 staff of migrant support organizations and workshops with 60 participants from migrant families. The 20 civic engagement workshops (with 60 participants, each participant attending 12 hours each) will help to counter a democratic deficit whereby the most marginalized sections of society are often excluded from the public sphere and deliberative democratic processes, resulting in contested or at times unaccountable professional practices and decision-making. The project also addresses the need of migrant integration policy to enhance migrants' inclusion into deliberative democratic processes, particularly young people and women (Casey Review 2016) Participatory creative methods are particularly effective for this. Key Aims:-To build capacity among migrant support organizations in the development and delivery of using creative, participatory methods for engaging and integrating migrant families. - To enhance the lives of migrant families by providing opportunities for engagement with policy issues affecting them, including migration and integration policy and equality issues (race, gender, ability, sexuality)- To facilitate sustainable engagement between migrant families, statutory and third sector organisations to extend public debate on how this impacts on lived experience- To create a training programme for migrant advocacy organizations, to be shared through a short film and toolkit for future use by other groups.