Archive of solidarity: precarity, creativity and shared future-making across closed borders

团结档案：跨越封闭边界的不稳定、创造力和共同的未来

• 批准号: AH/X010589/1
• 负责人: Zerrin Biner
• 金额: $ 101.39万
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX010589%2F1
• 关键词: Archive; solidarity; precarity; creativity; shared

We are witness to the most dramatic asylum crisis since WWII. Ongoing wars, political conflicts, and environmental disasters have forced millions of people to cross borders and seek asylum in other countries. National governments have increasingly put refugees at risk by securing borders and refugee routes, erecting walls and barbed-wire fences, and using surveillance technologies. These security measures and the growing deportation and detention of refugees who have crossed borders are meant to produce a hostile environment for refugees. Whilst this hostile environment has deeply split societies along xenophobic lines, it has also given birth to solidarity movements around refugee lives with the aim of envisioning a different future. Our project will make visible and archive these solidarity movements. Focusing on the border areas of Turkey and the United Kingdom (UK), The Archive of Solidarity is a collaborative project that involves local youth (refugees and citizens) and activists to investigate, document, and disseminate refugee-citizen solidarity practices that contribute to the future economic, social, and emotional well-being of refugee and citizen youth in particular. In co-creating and harnessing positive pathways forward for refugees and citizens at large, this project adopts the position of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Global Youth Advisory Council that the "talent, energy, and potential of young refugees are vital resources in global efforts to prevent and respond to challenges affecting all refugees." We will focus on the lived experiences of (1) refugee and citizen youth (18-30 years) living in UK and Turkish border provinces as they are the most precarious, mobile, and active communities, and (2) refugee and citizen activists from within and outside of humanitarian organizations who have been involved in solidarity work or refugee rights advocacy.In collaboration with refugees and citizens, we will mobilize interactive and impactful archive-making practices to produce and make visible displacement experiences and local, multicultural, and transnational spaces of solidarity between citizens and refugees for a wide range of stakeholders. We will use oral history documentation, ethnographic fieldnotes, memory walks, creative writing, and digital storytelling, and, will organise training workshops for the participants to better articulate and analyse their lived knowledge of borders and solidarity practices. These workshops will bring together ethnographers, oral historians, visual anthropologists, photographers, and archivists with local youth and activists to build collaborative processes of knowledge and solidarity production. Archive-making practices will open a space for refugee and citizen youth and activists to build innovative co-operations and become the authors, artists, witnesses, and researchers of their own histories, presents, and imagined futures. We will use a multi-medium strategy to disseminate our project's findings, which includes publications in high-impact scientific venues, policy briefs, and co-published stories told by youth and activists. To facilitate access to knowledge for collaborative research, the public will have open access to our archive-making workshops. We will create a Silk Road Refugee Walk, based on landmarks of border experiences and solidarity practices, that will include storytelling, creative writing, and semi-public readings in the Turkish border region. Finally, we will use online exhibitions, podcasts, and media outlets to share insights on archive-making practices to the broader public.

我们目睹了二战以来最严重的庇护危机。持续不断的战争、政治冲突和环境灾难迫使数百万人跨越国界，在其他国家寻求庇护。各国政府通过保护边境和难民路线、竖起围墙和铁丝网以及使用监视技术，越来越多地将难民置于危险之中。这些安全措施以及越来越多地驱逐和拘留跨越边界的难民，是为了给难民制造一种敌对的环境。虽然这种敌对的环境使社会沿着仇外的路线深深分裂，但它也催生了围绕难民生活的团结运动，目的是设想一个不同的未来。我们的项目将使这些团结运动可见并存档。团结档案馆是一个合作项目，重点关注土耳其和联合王国的边境地区，涉及当地青年（难民和公民）和活动家，调查，记录和传播难民-公民团结做法，特别是难民和公民青年未来的经济，社会和情感福祉。在为难民和广大公民共同创造和利用积极的前进道路方面，该项目采纳了联合国难民事务高级专员在全球青年咨询理事会中的立场，即“青年难民的才能、精力和潜力是全球努力预防和应对影响所有难民的挑战的重要资源。“我们将重点关注（1）难民和公民青年的生活经历（2）来自人道主义组织内部和外部的难民和公民活动家，他们参与了团结工作或难民权利倡导。与难民和公民合作，我们将动员互动和有影响力的档案制作实践，为广泛的利益攸关方制作和展示流离失所的经历以及公民和难民之间的地方、多元文化和跨国团结空间。我们将使用口述历史文献，民族志田野记录，记忆漫步，创意写作和数字故事，并将为参与者组织培训研讨会，以更好地表达和分析他们对边界和团结实践的生活知识。这些讲习班将汇集民族志学家、口述历史学家、视觉人类学家、摄影师和档案管理员与当地青年和活动家，以建立知识和团结生产的协作进程。档案制作实践将为难民和公民青年和活动家开辟一个空间，以建立创新的合作，并成为自己的历史，礼物和想象的未来的作者，艺术家，证人和研究人员。我们将使用多媒体策略来传播我们项目的研究结果，包括在高影响力的科学场所出版物，政策简报以及由青年和活动家共同出版的故事。为了方便获取知识的合作研究，公众将有开放的访问我们的档案制作工作坊。我们将根据边境经验和团结实践的里程碑，创建丝绸之路难民步行，其中包括土耳其边境地区的讲故事，创意写作和半公开阅读。最后，我们将利用在线展览、播客和媒体渠道向更广泛的公众分享关于档案制作实践的见解。