Migrant mothers caring for the future: creative interventions in making new citizens

该网络的主题是“关爱未来：展望过去”，主题是“改变家庭和社区”。《关心未来的移民母亲》汇集了一系列国际、国家、方法论和多学科的视角，包括社会学、移民研究、文化研究、文化地理学和创意艺术等学科的贡献，探讨移民母亲如何认识到她们在现代西方社会中培养未来公民的角色并提出问题，现代西方社会的种族、种族、宗教、文化和社会多样性日益突出。在英国，文化、社会和政策辩论表明，未来的挑战是通过可持续的多文化欢乐模式，形成一个具有文化多样性但又具有社会凝聚力的公民群体(Erel2011)。该网络鼓励对移民母亲的文化和关爱工作进行批判性思考和知识交流，使其子女成为未来的公民。具体地说，该网络通过审查家庭等机构如何跨越时空差异维持社会信任、凝聚力和团结，来考虑向移徙母亲和儿童公民提供信息的时间和空间变化。该网络汇集了一系列国际和多学科观点，有助于制定共同的研究议程，探讨移徙母亲在面对日益严重的社会分裂时，在促进族裔和文化上不同的儿童/青年之间的社会凝聚力方面的作用。这是一个在2011年8月骚乱后引起公众关注的问题。该网络促进(学术研究人员、艺术从业者和政策制定者之间)就移徙母亲在未来公民中的创造性干预进行共享对话和知识交流。这是通过两套活动实现的：活动1研讨会系列和最后会议国际研讨会和会议汇集了领先的研究和前沿实践，巩固了一个新的研究领域，目前分散在不同的学科和国家背景下，吸收了该领域的新兴学者和国际关键思想家。研讨会1：公民权、移民和母亲，重点是移民母亲公民权及其政策影响的理论化。研讨会2：为公民身份建设资源：母亲的文化干预，重点是移徙母亲对公民身份的文化干预和创造性研究方法，包括讲习班参与者对参与式戏剧的思考(参看。活动2)最后会议：关心未来的移民母亲：培养新公民的创造性干预措施。会议汇集了文化研究、后殖民研究、文化地理学、家庭研究、法律、移民研究和艺术从业者的观点，特别是参与式戏剧作品的演出(参见。活动2)。确定的主讲人：Patricia Hill Collins(美国马里兰大学)、Ayalet Shachar(加拿大多伦多大学)、Nira Yuval-Davis(东伦敦大学)、Hiroshi Motomura Hirokazu Yoshikawa(美国哈佛大学)、Ann Phoenix(英国教育研究所)活动2-参与式剧院参与式剧院包括8个工作坊，与8名移民母亲一起工作。在讲习班中，参与者就移徙和育儿问题构建了戏剧性的场景。社区剧场方法探索现实的内脏、时间和物质方面以及其中的社会互动。通过这些创造性的阐述，该网络与移徙母亲共同产生理论和经验知识，制定基于行动的方法。

This network addresses the 'Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past' programme's theme of 'Changing Families and Communities'. 'Migrant mothers caring for the future' brings together a range of international, national, methodological and multidisciplinary perspectives, including contributions from the disciplines of sociology, migration studies, cultural studies, cultural geography and the creative arts, to explore how migrant mothers realise and problematise their role in bringing up future citizens in modern Western societies, which are increasingly characterised ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity. In the UK context cultural, social and policy debates identify that the challenge for the future is to form a culturally diverse, yet socially cohesive, citizenry, through sustainable multicultural modes of conviviality (Erel 2011). The network stimulates critical thinking and knowledge exchange on the processes that shape migrant mothers' cultural and caring work in enabling their children to become future citizens. Specifically, the network considers the temporal and spatial changes informing migrant mothers' and children's citizenry by examining how institutions such as the family involved in making new citizens sustain social trust, cohesion and solidarity across differences over time and space. By drawing together a range of international and multidisciplinary perspectives the network contributes to developing a shared research agenda on the role of migrant mothers in promoting social cohesion among ethnic and cultural diverse children/young people in the face of increasing social cleavages. This is an issue that came to public prominence in the aftermath of the August 2011 riots. The network promotes shared conversations and knowledge exchange (between academic researchers, arts practitioners and policymakers) concerning migrant mothers' creative interventions in future citizenry. This is achieved through two sets of activities Activity 1 Seminar series and final conferenceThe international seminars and conference bring together leading research and cutting edge practice, consolidating a novel field of research, which is currently dispersed across different disciplines and national contexts, drawing on emerging scholars as well as international key thinkers in the field. Seminar 1: Citizenship, Migration and Mothering, focusing on theorizing migrant mothers' citizenship and its policy implications. Seminar 2: Building Resources for citizenship: mothers' cultural intervention, focusing on migrant mothers' cultural interventions into citizenship and creative research methods, including reflections on participatory theatre by workshop participants (cf. activity2).Final Conference: Migrant mothers caring for the future: creative interventions in making new citizens. The conference brings together perspectives from cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural geography, family studies, law, migration studies and arts practitioners, in particular a performance of the participatory theatre piece (cf. activity2). Confirmed keynote speakers: Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland, US), Ayalet Shachar (University of Toronto, Canada), Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London), Hiroshi Motomura Hirokazu Yoshikawa (Harvard University, US), Ann Phoenix (Institute of Education, UK)Activity 2 - Participatory TheatreThe participatory theatre comprises 8 workshop sessions working with a group of 8 migrant mothers. In the workshops participants construct dramatic scenes on the topic of migration and mothering. Community theatre methods explore visceral, temporal, and corporeal aspects of realities and the social interactions within them. Through these creative articulations, the network co-produces theoretical and empirical knowledge with the migrant mothers, developing action-based methodologies.