O’Neill, Maggie, Erel, Umut, Kaptani, Erene and Reynolds, Tracey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9618-6318 (2019) Borders, Risk and Belonging: challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity.’. Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 10 (1). pp. 129-147. ISSN 2040-4344 (doi:10.1386/cjmc.10.1.129_1)

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Abstract

This paper critically discusses the experiences of women who are seeking asylum in the North East of England and women who are mothers with no recourse to public funds living in London to address the questions posed by the special issue. It argues both epistemologically and methodologically for the benefits of undertaking participatory arts-based, ethno-mimetic, performative methods with women and communities to better understand women’s lives, build local capacity in seeking policy change, as well as contribute to theorising necropolitics through praxis. Drawing upon artistic outcomes of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust on borders, risk, and belonging, and collaborative research funded by the ESRC/NCRM using participatory theatre and walking methods, the paper addresses the questions posed by the special issue: how is statelessness experienced by women seeking asylum and mothers with no recourse to public funds? To what extent are their lived experiences marked by precarity, social and civil death? What does it mean to be a woman and a mother in these precarious times, ‘at the borders of humanity’? Where are the spaces for resistance and how might we as artists and researchers – across the arts, humanities, and social sciences – contribute and activate?

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	migration, families, participatory methods, walking,
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > Centre for Applied Sociology Research (CASR) Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
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Last Modified:	13 Dec 2020 00:52
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/22989

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