Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Forced Displacement in Morocco

该项目将开发创新的、跨学科的和参与性的艺术方法，以促进创造性地参与摩洛哥的被迫流离失所问题。摩洛哥已成为一个过境和移民国家，特别是撒哈拉以南逃离迫害和贫困的移民和逃离叙利亚冲突和迫害的移民。摩洛哥是欧盟在“管理”跨地中海移民方面的战略伙伴。尽管如此，摩洛哥在最近的“移民危机”中几乎没有出现，也被研究所忽视。在这种背景下，摩洛哥的跨文化性、移民权利、暴力和种族主义迫切需要新的批判性参与模式，以便为决策和宣传提供新的知识。研究人员、从业者和活动家支持紧急部署基于艺术的方法，作为与流离失所社区接触的社会研究工具，指出了创造性艺术对强迫流离失所问题研究和宣传的积极贡献和变革力量。然而，这种对参与性和跨学科艺术方法的日益重视通常仅限于“全球北方”。相反，本项目将在摩洛哥采用这种方法。四个研究问题驱动这个项目：1。参与创意艺术在多大程度上以及如何能够对摩洛哥的流离失所问题产生新的见解？2.基于艺术的方法能在多大程度上以及如何加强关于被迫流离失所的传统社会研究？3.参与艺术如何能够打破权力关系，并使参与性方法的共同生产成为可能？4.创造性的参与方法如何在研究、宣传和能力建设之间产生协同作用？我们的四个项目合作伙伴是：1）一个支持摩洛哥强迫移民的非政府组织（GADEM），2）拉巴特的一个强迫移民协会（ALECMA），3）摩洛哥的一个艺术家集体（DABATEATR），以及4）一个总部设在英国的难民、庇护和移民网络（GRAMNet）。我们在摩洛哥的项目合作伙伴致力于促进批判性参与，改善摩洛哥的政治话语和社会接受度。在摩洛哥与我们的项目合作伙伴共同设计和共同交付的研究活动包括为从事强迫流离失所工作的从业人员举办的研讨会，为“流离失所者”和“东道国”社区成员举办的创意艺术讲习班，以及为从业人员举办的跨国知识交流论坛。项目目标是：1.运用基于艺术的创造性方法，对摩洛哥的流离失所和移徙问题提出新的经验和理论见解，作为案例研究，并评估在其他官方发展援助背景下应用的潜力;2.共同设计参与性活动，以加强支持摩洛哥流离失所社区的非政府组织的能力，以开展可持续的参与、研究和宣传方案;加强基层移民协会的能力，以吸引、动员和支持移民;4.在摩洛哥和英国之间以及在学术界和从事强迫流离失所问题的第三部门之间建立关系，发展伙伴关系，并在跨国范围内交流最佳做法。（爱丁堡大学），该团队由来自人文和社会科学的研究人员组成，他们在强迫流离失所，艺术方法，非政府组织伙伴关系，知识交流，和能力建设内外摩洛哥的背景。通过将移民和从业人员纳入研究过程和研究方法的制定，这项研究建立了项目合作伙伴的研究和宣传能力。通过采用多学科方法，并设计一种创新的参与性方法，该项目将在项目生命周期内外产生经济和社会影响。

This project will develop innovative, interdisciplinary, and participatory arts-based methods to facilitate creative engagement with forced displacement in Morocco. Morocco has become a country of transit and immigration, notably for sub-Saharan migrants fleeing persecution and poverty and for those fleeing conflict and persecution in Syria. Morocco is a strategic partner for the EU in the 'management' of trans-Mediterranean migration. Nevertheless, Morocco has featured little in recent depictions of the 'migration crisis' and has been overlooked by research. In this context, interculturality, migrants' rights, violence, and racism in Morocco urgently require new modes of critical engagement for research oriented towards the generation of new knowledge for policy-making and advocacy alike.Researchers, practitioners, and activists support the emergent deployment of arts-based methods as social research tools to engage with displaced communities, pointing to the positive contribution and transformative power of creative arts for research and advocacy on forced displacement. However, this growing emphasis on participatory and interdisciplinary arts-based methods is usually limited to the 'global north'. In contrast, this project will adapt this methodological approach in Morocco. Four research questions drive this project:1. To what extent and how can engagement with creative arts generate fresh insights on displacement in Morocco?2. To what extent and how can arts-based methods enhance traditional social research on forced displacement?3. How can engagement with arts disrupt power relations and enable co-production of participatory methods? 4. How can creative participatory methods generate synergies between research, advocacy, and capacity building?Our four Project Partners are 1) an NGO supporting forced migrants in Morocco (GADEM), 2) a forced migrants' association in Rabat (ALECMA), 3) an artists' collective in Morocco (DABATEATR), and 4) a UK-based refugee, asylum and migration network (GRAMNet). Our Project Partners in Morocco are invested in fostering critical engagement and improving political discourse and social acceptance in Morocco. Research activities co-designed and co-delivered in Morocco in collaboration with our Project Partners include a seminar for practitioners working on forced displacement, creative arts-based workshops for members of the 'displaced' and 'host' communities, and transnational knowledge exchange forums for practitioners. Project objectives are:1. To deploy creative arts-based methods to generate fresh empirical and theoretical insights on displacement and migration in Morocco as a case study, and to evaluate the potential for application in other ODA contexts;2. To co-design participatory activities to enhance the capacity of NGOs supporting displaced communities in Morocco to pursue sustainable engagement, research, and advocacy programmes;3. To enhance the capacity of grassroots migrants' associations to engage, mobilise, and support migrants;4. To build relationships, develop partnerships, and exchange best practice transnationally between Morocco and the UK and across academia and the third sector working on forced displacement.Led by Dr Laura Jeffery (University of Edinburgh), the team consists of researchers from across the humanities and social sciences with experiences in forced displacement, arts-based methods, NGO partnership, knowledge exchange, and capacity building within and beyond the Moroccan context. Through its inclusion of migrants and practitioners in the research process and in the development of research methods, this study builds the research and advocacy capacity of Project Partners. By deploying a multidisciplinary approach, and devising an innovative, participatory method, the project will have economic and societal impacts within and beyond the project's life cycle.