"The Arts of Integration: Scottish policies of refugee integration and the role of the creative and performing arts."

在苏格兰，寻求庇护者和难民从第一天起就融入社会。这是苏格兰的主要融合政策，与联合王国其他地区的政策不同。在过去三年中，这项政策一直是社会科学领域若干研究的主题。这些研究的结果表明，社区中的创造性艺术和表演艺术以及自我和集体表达的机会，是融合经验和过程中的一个重要和有价值的因素。目前还没有研究集中探讨创造性艺术和表演艺术在融合中的独特性质，它们如何在不同社区运作，方法和组织原则可能是什么，不同文化在语言、文化和组织表演的方式上有很大的差异，但如何能够通过创意和表演艺术进行合作。本项目探讨如何利用创意和表演艺术，表演艺术在苏格兰难民社区融合工作中的作用。它还建议将苏格兰的总体支持融合政策与政策不太有利甚至敌对的国家进行比较，包括联合王国其他地区以及澳大利亚或新西兰的奥特亚罗瓦。学生将审查现有的研究在社区艺术的使用，社区发展和社区凝聚力（包括AHRC连接社区主题的工作），特别是关于多元文化社区。这项审查将适用于苏格兰难民融合的情况，方法是在正在执行促进为融合目的使用艺术的政策的社区内进行一项研究。这将涉及难民周苏格兰节期间的工作以及苏格兰难民理事会协调的艺术方案（http：//www.scottishmartecouncil.org.uk/）。该项目学生将为关键政策领域，特别是2013年启动的新苏格兰人融合战略提供调查结果，该战略将在项目结束时进行中期审查。此外，该项目还将制定一份最佳做法指南，说明如何利用创造性艺术和表演艺术促进融合。将对“融合”的核心思想和政策以及艺术的使用进行审查和批判性研究，以便它不仅仅是一种假定的社会利益，而是得到充分的评估。该项目学生将作为项目伙伴与苏格兰难民理事会密切合作，并与格拉斯哥大学难民、庇护和移民网络（GRAMNet）（http：//www.gla.ac.uk/gramnet/）的研究人员密切合作，活动的一个重点将是苏格兰难民周和其他国际纪念日，这些活动还将在整个项目过程中，特别是在实地工作阶段，提供一个重点，供观察、描述和参与。主要产出将包括一份最佳做法指南，说明在以艺术为基础与难民社区和当地社区融合方面什么是有效的，包括艺术、社区、社会服务、创意产业的政策和做法指南。

In Scotland, integration of asylum seekers and refugees occurs from day one. This is the primary integration policy in Scotland and differs from the policies in the rest of the UK. This policy has been the subject of a number of research studies in the social sciences over the last three years. Findings from these studies have shown the creative and performing arts, and opportunities for self and collective expression, in communities, to be a significant and valued element in the experience and process of integration. No study has yet focused on the distinctive nature of the use of the creative and performing arts in integration, how they operate in different communities, what the methods and organizing principles might be, how different cultures are able to collaborate through the creative and performing arts despite considerable differences in language and culture and in assumed ways of organising performance.This project investigates the use of the creative and performing arts in the work of community integration for refugees in Scotland. It also proposes to compare the generally supportive policies of integration in Scotland with countries where policies are less favourable or even hostile, including the rest of the United Kingdom and prospectively Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand. The student will review existing research on the use of the arts in communities for community development and community cohesion (including work of the AHRC Connected Communities theme) especially with regard to multicultural communities. The review will be applied to the context of refugee integration in Scotland by undertaking a study within communities where policies which promote the use of the arts for integration purposes are being implemented. This will involve work during the Refugee Week Scotland Festival as well as with arts programmes co-ordinated by the Scottish Refugee Council (http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/). The project student will contribute findings to key areas of policy, notably to the New Scots Integration Strategy, launched in 2013 and which will reach its midpoint review towards the end of the project. In addition the project will develop a best practice guide to what works in using the creative and performing arts for promoting integration. The core idea and policy of 'integration' together with the use of the arts will be subject to review and critical study, so that it is not simply an assumed societal good, but is evaluated fully. The project student will work closely within the Scottish Refugee Council, as the project partner, and with researchers at the University of Glasgow's Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) (http://www.gla.ac.uk/gramnet/).A key focus of activity will be Refugee Week Scotland and other International Days of Observance will also provide a focus for observation, description and participation throughout the course of the project and notably in the field work phase. Major outputs will include a best practice guide on what works in arts based integration with refugee communities and local communities, including policy and practice guidelines for arts, communities, social services, creative industries.