Far from home: migration, artefacts and the imagination in Young Adult fiction

这个注重创意的研究项目将考察流离失所的个人(特别是年轻人)如何使用文物来主张对他们的移民经历的想象力和情感控制。创意项目将是一部历史的YA小说，以20世纪30年代瑞士弗丁金德的经历为中心，特别是关于三个流离失所的儿童和他们偷走的文物之间的关系。关键部分将详细审查移民雅安小说，并考虑难民(和散居社区的儿童)与物品联系的方式，利用它们来处理情感和建立新的社会关系。整个项目将利用儿童教育环境(包括加沙和其他地方的学校、博物馆和难民营)的丰富经验，探索对文物的一系列富有想象力的反应，以及这些如何塑造关于身份认同、创伤、移民和文物遣返的对话。

This creative-critical research project will look at the ways displaced individuals (and specifically young adults) use artefacts to assert imaginative and emotional control over their experiences of migration.The creative project will be a historical YA novel centring on the experiences of verdingkinder in 1930s Switzerland and particularly on the relationship between three displaced children and the artefact they steal. The critical element will make a detailed examination of migratory YA fiction and consider the ways in which refugees (and the children of diaspora communities) relate to objects, using them to process emotion and forge new social connections.Drawing on extensive experience in children's educational settings (including schools, museums and refugee camps in Gaza and elsewhere), the whole project will explore a range of imaginative responses to artefacts and how these shape conversations around identity, trauma, migration and artefact repatriation.