Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Forced Displacement in Morocco

该项目将开发创新的、跨学科的、参与性的艺术方法，以促进创造性地参与摩洛哥的被迫流离失所问题。摩洛哥已成为一个过境国和移民国，尤其是撒哈拉以南地区逃离迫害和贫困的移民，以及逃离叙利亚冲突和迫害的移民。摩洛哥是欧盟在“管理”跨地中海移民方面的战略伙伴。然而，摩洛哥在最近对“移民危机”的描述中几乎没有什么特色，而且一直被研究忽视。在这种背景下，摩洛哥的跨文化、移民权利、暴力和种族主义问题迫切需要新的批判性参与研究模式，以便为政策制定和宣传提供新知识。研究人员、从业者和活动人士支持将基于艺术的方法作为与流离失所社区接触的社会研究工具的紧急部署，指出创造性艺术对被迫流离失所的研究和倡导的积极贡献和变革力量。然而，这种日益强调参与性和跨学科艺术为基础的方法通常仅限于“全球北方”。相比之下，本项目将在摩洛哥采用这种方法。驱动这个项目的四个研究问题：1。参与创意艺术在多大程度上以及如何产生关于摩洛哥流离失所问题的新见解？基于艺术的方法在多大程度上以及如何加强传统的关于被迫流离失所的社会研究？与艺术的接触如何打破权力关系，并使参与方式的共同生产成为可能？4. 创造性的参与式方法如何在研究、宣传和能力建设之间产生协同效应？我们的四个项目合作伙伴是：1)支持摩洛哥被迫移民的非政府组织（GADEM）， 2)拉巴特被迫移民协会（ALECMA）， 3)摩洛哥艺术家团体（DABATEATR），以及4)英国难民、庇护和移民网络（GRAMNet）。我们在摩洛哥的项目合作伙伴致力于促进批判性参与，改善摩洛哥的政治话语和社会接受度。与我们的项目合作伙伴在摩洛哥共同设计和实施的研究活动包括为从事被迫流离失所工作的从业者举办的研讨会，为“流离失所”和“收容”社区成员举办的创意艺术讲习班，以及为从业者举办的跨国知识交流论坛。项目目标是：1。1 .采用基于创造性艺术的方法，以摩洛哥为例，对流离失所和移民问题产生新的经验和理论见解，并评估在其他官方发展援助情况下应用的潜力；2 .共同设计参与活动，以提高支持摩洛哥流离失所社区的非政府组织的能力，使其能够开展可持续的参与、研究和宣传方案；3 .加强基层移民协会参与、动员和支持移民的能力；建立关系，发展伙伴关系，并在摩洛哥和英国之间以及整个学术界和强迫流离失所的第三部门之间跨国交流最佳实践。由Laura Jeffery博士（爱丁堡大学）领导，该团队由来自人文和社会科学领域的研究人员组成，他们在摩洛哥境内外的被迫流离失所、基于艺术的方法、非政府组织伙伴关系、知识交流和能力建设方面具有丰富经验。通过将移民和从业人员纳入研究过程和研究方法的发展，本研究建立了项目伙伴的研究和倡导能力。通过采用多学科方法，并设计一种创新的、参与式的方法，该项目将在项目生命周期内外产生经济和社会影响。

This project will develop innovative, interdisciplinary, and participatory arts-based methods to facilitate creative engagement with forced displacement in Morocco. Morocco has become a country of transit and immigration, notably for sub-Saharan migrants fleeing persecution and poverty and for those fleeing conflict and persecution in Syria. Morocco is a strategic partner for the EU in the 'management' of trans-Mediterranean migration. Nevertheless, Morocco has featured little in recent depictions of the 'migration crisis' and has been overlooked by research. In this context, interculturality, migrants' rights, violence, and racism in Morocco urgently require new modes of critical engagement for research oriented towards the generation of new knowledge for policy-making and advocacy alike.Researchers, practitioners, and activists support the emergent deployment of arts-based methods as social research tools to engage with displaced communities, pointing to the positive contribution and transformative power of creative arts for research and advocacy on forced displacement. However, this growing emphasis on participatory and interdisciplinary arts-based methods is usually limited to the 'global north'. In contrast, this project will adapt this methodological approach in Morocco. Four research questions drive this project:1. To what extent and how can engagement with creative arts generate fresh insights on displacement in Morocco?2. To what extent and how can arts-based methods enhance traditional social research on forced displacement?3. How can engagement with arts disrupt power relations and enable co-production of participatory methods? 4. How can creative participatory methods generate synergies between research, advocacy, and capacity building?Our four Project Partners are 1) an NGO supporting forced migrants in Morocco (GADEM), 2) a forced migrants' association in Rabat (ALECMA), 3) an artists' collective in Morocco (DABATEATR), and 4) a UK-based refugee, asylum and migration network (GRAMNet). Our Project Partners in Morocco are invested in fostering critical engagement and improving political discourse and social acceptance in Morocco. Research activities co-designed and co-delivered in Morocco in collaboration with our Project Partners include a seminar for practitioners working on forced displacement, creative arts-based workshops for members of the 'displaced' and 'host' communities, and transnational knowledge exchange forums for practitioners. Project objectives are:1. To deploy creative arts-based methods to generate fresh empirical and theoretical insights on displacement and migration in Morocco as a case study, and to evaluate the potential for application in other ODA contexts;2. To co-design participatory activities to enhance the capacity of NGOs supporting displaced communities in Morocco to pursue sustainable engagement, research, and advocacy programmes;3. To enhance the capacity of grassroots migrants' associations to engage, mobilise, and support migrants;4. To build relationships, develop partnerships, and exchange best practice transnationally between Morocco and the UK and across academia and the third sector working on forced displacement.Led by Dr Laura Jeffery (University of Edinburgh), the team consists of researchers from across the humanities and social sciences with experiences in forced displacement, arts-based methods, NGO partnership, knowledge exchange, and capacity building within and beyond the Moroccan context. Through its inclusion of migrants and practitioners in the research process and in the development of research methods, this study builds the research and advocacy capacity of Project Partners. By deploying a multidisciplinary approach, and devising an innovative, participatory method, the project will have economic and societal impacts within and beyond the project's life cycle.