Cultural artefacts and belonging: A comparative case study of displaced and refugee young people and families in Ukraine and Belarus.

这项研究将探讨白俄罗斯和乌克兰流离失所的年轻人如何在动荡局势中通过使用文物来改变他们的身份和归属感。特别是，研究将侧重于文化和语言遗产在转变青年人自我意识方面的作用。研究的对象是受到意外的大规模人口被迫从乌克兰东部和克里米亚迁移到乌克兰其他地区和邻国白俄罗斯的影响的年轻人及其家庭，白俄罗斯目前也正在经历政治动荡。先前的研究表明，身份和归属感影响年轻难民及其家庭的适应速度，并可能影响教育成果和情感健康。由于严重的社会冲突，家庭被迫流离失所的年轻人可能会在教育和生活机会平等方面受到负面影响。家庭、学校、朋友和邻里关系对身份的形成产生了重大影响，也是儿童和青少年社会支助系统的基础;由于暴力冲突和社会环境的彻底改变而造成的被迫流离失所（或移民），对青年人身份的形成和融入新社区的可能性提出了更多的挑战。在东欧和波罗的海国家进行的音乐、歌曲和语言研究已经确立了文物在多文化社会中的重要性。乌克兰和白俄罗斯的两个比较案例研究将通过在线访谈和与YP及其父母/家庭的互动焦点小组，从创新的代际视角探讨两国流离失所者不断变化的文化景观。通过创新使用与身份和归属感相关的文化记忆盒，我们将探索文化文物（例如音乐、诗歌、文学）如何在政治和社会危机时期调解归属感以及文化联系或排斥。这项研究的目的是通过青年及其家庭的重点群体，确定分析文化艺术品在其他冲突局势中形成特性方面的作用的可行性。研究结束时将展出与身份有关的文物。这项研究还将有助于了解艺术记忆如何影响情感和安全问题。加强对乌克兰和白俄罗斯等动荡局势中身份发展的了解，将有助于制定干预措施，减少不安全感、孤立感、缺乏归属感和疏远感。总之，这个项目的重点是为未来的转变创造新的身份。它将研究文物在这一创造性活动中的地位，涉及转型的调解过程，以及支持这一点的背景。

This study will examine the ways that displaced young people in Belarus and Ukraine transform their identities and sense of belonging in turbulent situations through the use of cultural artefacts. In particular, the study will focus on the role of cultural and linguistic heritage in the transformation of young people's sense of themselves. The subjects of the research are young people and their families affected by unanticipated large scale forced population displacements from the East of Ukraine and the Crimea to other parts of Ukraine and to the neighbouring country of Belarus which is now also experiencing political turbulence. Previous research has shown that identity and sense of belonging influences the pace of adaptation of young refugees and their families and can impact on educational outcomes and emotional wellbeing. Young people whose families have become forcefully displaced as a result of critical societal conflict are likely to be negatively affected in terms of the equality of educational and life opportunities. Family, school, friends and neighbourhood constitute major influences on identity formation and the basis of the social support system for children and adolescents; forceful displacement (or immigration) as a result of a violent conflict and complete change of social environment pose additional challenges for the young people's identity formation and their integration into the possibilities of a new community. Studies of music, song and language conducted in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states have established the significance of cultural artefacts in relation to multi-cultural societies. Two comparative case studies in Ukraine and Belarus will explore the changing cultural landscapes for displaced people in the two countries from an innovative inter-generational perspective through on-line interviewing and interactive focus groups with YP and their parents/families. Through the innovative use of cultural memory boxes related to identity and belonging we will explore how cultural artefacts (e.g. music, poetry, literature) mediate feelings of belonging and cultural connectedness or exclusion during times of political and social crisis. The study aims through focus groups of young people and their families to establish the feasibility of analysing the role of cultural artefacts in the formation of identities in other conflict situation. The research will conclude with exhibitions of cultural artefacts related to identity. The research will also contribute to knowledge of the way that arts-based memories impinge on issues of affect and safety. An enhanced understanding of identity development in turbulent situations such as those that obtain in Ukraine and Belarus will assists in the formulation of interventions that reduce feelings of insecurity, isolation, lack of belonging and estrangement. In summary, this project focusses on the making of new identities for transformed futures. It will examine the place of cultural artefacts in this creative activity, the process of mediation involved in transformation, and the context in which this is supported.