Refugee Wales: The Afterlife of Violence

暴力内战的经历如何影响那些被迫离开家园并在完全不同的社会中开始新生活的难民？这样的经历是如何改变人们对自己是谁、属于哪里的认识的？他们如何适应新环境并最终成为新国家的公民？这种经历是如何成为几代人的家庭记忆的一部分的？这些是卡迪夫大学和威尔士国家博物馆的研究人员将通过研究威尔士不同同化阶段的难民来探索的一些问题。我们从对过去的记忆塑造身份的假设开始，并询问受战争和逃亡创伤并申请庇护的难民如何受到这种经历的影响。我们观察他们的自我意识是如何被新的现实、新的经历和新的地方所改变的。我们将斯里兰卡泰米尔人的生活故事与最近的叙利亚难民进行比较和对比，以了解他们所面临的挑战以及从难民到公民的身份转变。斯里兰卡泰米尔人自20世纪80年代以来作为难民来到这里，现在包括第二代和第三代难民。通过深入的生活故事访谈和参与式研讨会，我们分析了战争、逃亡、寻求庇护和在威尔士定居的记忆，看看这些记忆中的经历如何影响融合。我们利用创伤，记忆，难民和散居研究，并使用口述历史，文本分析和创造性的参与式研讨会作为我们的主要研究工具。我们探讨了口述历史如何与创伤和记忆方法交叉，以使受创伤的受访者能够发展一种代理感。我们探讨创伤和记忆研究，这是欧美起源，需要细致入微，当使用非欧洲的对象。我们与难民合作开展创意项目，利用他们的生活故事，让更广泛的公众（包括学校、政府机构和第三部门组织）了解这些问题。我们的目标是生产和传播与四个群体相关的知识：项目参与者、难民社区、教育机构、博物馆公众、政府、政策和第三部门组织。该项目将解决：1；难民如何在他们的新国家记住和重塑他们的身份和能动性，这些身份和能动性以前是由他们的原籍国的经历形成的。2. 经历是如何通过家庭和社区记忆代代相传的？对难民主体性的认识如何使难民得到东道国社会更好的重视，这反过来又可能影响难民的自我认同和应对策略。4. 如何利用创造性的研究活动来扰乱研究者和被试之间的权力关系，并赋予后者权力。5 .该项目如何使难民、各机构和更广泛的收容社会能够从难民的创伤和记忆经验中学习，以及如何更好地相互了解难民与收容社会的关系和融合。从难民经历中学习如何帮助威尔士国家博物馆（AC-NMW）和其他类似机构提高对难民历史的认识和敏感性，并提高其公共项目和收藏的包容性和多样性？该项目将有助于国家博物馆的口述历史收藏，帮助记录威尔士作为一个多元化国家的生活。我们将建立难民主观经验数据档案，供研究人员、教师、第三部门工作人员和政策制定者使用；学术著作：一系列学术书籍和文章；被研究社区的永久口述历史档案。

ContextHow does the experience of violent civil war affect refugees who are forced to leave their homes and to establish a new life in very different society? How does such experience change people's sense of who they are and where they belong? How do they cope with the processes of adapting to a new environment and eventually becoming citizens of their new country? How does this experience become part of family memory across generations? These are some of the questions that researchers from Cardiff University and the National Museum of Wales will explore by working with refugees at different stages of assimilation in Wales. We begin with the hypothesis that memories of the past shape identity and ask how refugees, traumatised by war and flight and who apply for asylum are affected by this experience. We look at how their sense of who they are is changed by new realities, new experiences, and new places. We compare and contrast the life stories of Sri Lankan Tamils, who arrived as refugees since the 1980s and now include second and third generations, with recent Syrian refugees in order to understand the challenges that they face and the transformations of identities from refugee to citizen. Using in-depth life story interviews and participatory workshops, we analyse memories of war, flight, asylum-seeking and settlement in Wales, looking at how these remembered experiences affect integration. We draw on trauma, memory, refugee and diaspora studies and use oral history, textual analysis, and creative participatory workshops as our main research tools. We explore how oral history might intersect with trauma and memory methodologies to enable traumatised interviewees to develop a sense of agency. We explore how trauma and memory studies, which are Euro-American in origin, need to be nuanced when used with non-European subjects. We work collaboratively with refugees on creative projects that draw on the life stories and make issues accessible to a wider public including schools, government agencies and third sector organisationsAims and ObjectivesWe aim to produce and disseminate knowledge relevant to 4 groups: the project participants, refugee communities, educational institutions, museum publics, and government, policy and third sector organisations. The project will address:1. How refugees remember and remake their identities and sense of agency, previously formed by the experience of their countries of origin, in their new country. 2. How experiences are passed on across generations via family and community memories.3. How knowledge of refugee subjectivity might enable refugees to be better valued by the host society which, in turn, might impact on refugee self-identities and coping strategies. 4. How creative research-based activities can be used to disturb the power relationships between researchers and subjects and empower the latter.5. How the project might enable refugees, institutions and the broader host society, to learn from refugee experiences of trauma and memory and how to reach a better mutual understanding of refugee-host society relationships and integration.6. How learning from refugee experiences can help Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (AC-NMW) and other similar institutions become more aware of and sensitive to refugee histories and improve the inclusivity and diversity of their public programming and collecting? Potential Application and Benefits The project will contribute to the National Museum's oral history collection, helping to document life in Wales as a diverse country. We will produce an archive of data on the subjective experience of refugees for use by researchers, teachers, third-sector workers, and policy makers; a range of scholarly books and articles; a permanent oral history archive of the communities studied.