Participatory Artsbased Methods For Civic Engagement In Migrant Support Organizations

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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.