Archive of solidarity: precarity, creativity and shared future-making across closed borders

我们目睹了二战以来最具戏剧性的庇护危机。持续不断的战争、政治冲突和环境灾难迫使数百万人跨境到其他国家寻求庇护。各国政府通过保护边境和难民路线、竖起围墙和带刺铁丝网以及使用监控技术，越来越多地将难民置于危险之中。这些安全措施以及对越境难民越来越多的驱逐和拘留，意在为难民创造一个敌对的环境。虽然这种充满敌意的环境沿着排外路线严重分裂了社会，但它也催生了围绕难民生活的团结运动，目的是展望一个不同的未来。我们的项目将使这些团结运动变得可见并存档。团结档案以土耳其和英国边境地区为重点，是一个合作项目，让当地青年(难民和公民)和积极分子参与调查、记录和传播难民-公民团结做法，这些做法有助于难民和公民青年未来的经济、社会和情感福祉。在共同为难民和广大公民创造和利用积极的前进道路方面，该项目采纳了联合国难民事务高级专员在全球青年咨询理事会中的立场，即“年轻难民的才华、能量和潜力是全球努力预防和应对影响所有难民的挑战的重要资源。”我们将关注(1)生活在英国和土耳其边境省份的难民和公民青年(18-30岁)的生活经历，因为他们是最不稳定、最具流动性和最活跃的社区，(2)来自人道主义组织内外的难民和公民活动家，他们参与了团结工作或难民权利倡导。我们将与难民和公民合作，动员互动和有影响力的档案制作做法，为广泛的利益相关者制作和制作可见的流离失所经历和公民和难民之间的本地、多元文化和跨国团结空间。我们将使用口述历史记录、人种学田野笔记、记忆漫步、创造性写作和数字讲故事，并将为参与者组织培训讲习班，以更好地阐述和分析他们关于边界和团结做法的现场知识。这些讲习班将使人种学家、口述历史学家、视觉人类学家、摄影师和档案保管员与当地青年和积极分子汇聚一堂，建立知识和团结协作的进程。档案制作实践将为难民和公民青年和活动家打开一个空间，以建立创新的合作，并成为他们自己的历史、礼物和想象的未来的作者、艺术家、见证者和研究人员。我们将使用多媒体战略来传播我们项目的成果，其中包括在高影响力的科学场所发表出版物、政策简报，以及青年和活动家讲述的共同出版的故事。为了方便获取合作研究的知识，公众将开放访问我们的档案制作讲习班。我们将以边境经验和团结实践的里程碑为基础，创建丝绸之路难民行，其中将包括讲故事、创造性写作和在土耳其边境地区进行半公开朗读。最后，我们将利用在线展览、播客和媒体向更广泛的公众分享对档案制作实践的见解。

We are witness to the most dramatic asylum crisis since WWII. Ongoing wars, political conflicts, and environmental disasters have forced millions of people to cross borders and seek asylum in other countries. National governments have increasingly put refugees at risk by securing borders and refugee routes, erecting walls and barbed-wire fences, and using surveillance technologies. These security measures and the growing deportation and detention of refugees who have crossed borders are meant to produce a hostile environment for refugees. Whilst this hostile environment has deeply split societies along xenophobic lines, it has also given birth to solidarity movements around refugee lives with the aim of envisioning a different future. Our project will make visible and archive these solidarity movements. Focusing on the border areas of Turkey and the United Kingdom (UK), The Archive of Solidarity is a collaborative project that involves local youth (refugees and citizens) and activists to investigate, document, and disseminate refugee-citizen solidarity practices that contribute to the future economic, social, and emotional well-being of refugee and citizen youth in particular. In co-creating and harnessing positive pathways forward for refugees and citizens at large, this project adopts the position of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Global Youth Advisory Council that the "talent, energy, and potential of young refugees are vital resources in global efforts to prevent and respond to challenges affecting all refugees." We will focus on the lived experiences of (1) refugee and citizen youth (18-30 years) living in UK and Turkish border provinces as they are the most precarious, mobile, and active communities, and (2) refugee and citizen activists from within and outside of humanitarian organizations who have been involved in solidarity work or refugee rights advocacy.In collaboration with refugees and citizens, we will mobilize interactive and impactful archive-making practices to produce and make visible displacement experiences and local, multicultural, and transnational spaces of solidarity between citizens and refugees for a wide range of stakeholders. We will use oral history documentation, ethnographic fieldnotes, memory walks, creative writing, and digital storytelling, and, will organise training workshops for the participants to better articulate and analyse their lived knowledge of borders and solidarity practices. These workshops will bring together ethnographers, oral historians, visual anthropologists, photographers, and archivists with local youth and activists to build collaborative processes of knowledge and solidarity production. Archive-making practices will open a space for refugee and citizen youth and activists to build innovative co-operations and become the authors, artists, witnesses, and researchers of their own histories, presents, and imagined futures. We will use a multi-medium strategy to disseminate our project's findings, which includes publications in high-impact scientific venues, policy briefs, and co-published stories told by youth and activists. To facilitate access to knowledge for collaborative research, the public will have open access to our archive-making workshops. We will create a Silk Road Refugee Walk, based on landmarks of border experiences and solidarity practices, that will include storytelling, creative writing, and semi-public readings in the Turkish border region. Finally, we will use online exhibitions, podcasts, and media outlets to share insights on archive-making practices to the broader public.