Preparations well underway for start of our #UKRI#GCRF#SouthSouthMigration, Inequality and Development Hub. Around the world - from Haiti to Malaysia - more than 40 partners are busily packing their bags to come and join us at @cms_moop next week. Watch this space for updates!
Today’s rehearsal at Noyam Dance Institute with @alison_phipps@GTordzro for new performance to mark official start of #UKRI#GCRF#SouthSouthMigration, Inequality and Development Hub. Multilingual title is ‘Dzen Lungulungu Kpɔdomi’ meaning ‘Corridors’ in Gã Hausa and Ewegbe
Meanwhile the women of Dodowa are making tie-dyed fabrics reflecting Ghana’s long history of using fabric to beautify body and space. #UKRI#GCRF#SouthSouthMigration Hub puts creativity at its heart, opening up new spaces to understand migration from a human-centred perspective
In nearly 30 years of research I have never seen a more energised and empowering form of securing informed consent than this. The ‘consent song, devised by young people from Noyam Dance Institute, to replace the forms that so rarely engage those we work with in a meaningful way
So here we are, on the eve of our #SouthSouthMigration, Inequality and Development Hub officially coming into being. But the truth is that these beautiful people with whom I’ve debated, laughed and conspired for nearly two years have already become some of my closest friends
So this is it! The first meeting of the new #UKRI#GCRF South-South Migration Hub and the first step in our efforts to shift the ways in which migration in the #GlobalSouth is conceptualised and understood. Time to change how we see the world! Live tweeting #SouthSouthMigration
Didn’t intend to add to this particular thread but as we finished our work for #SouthSouthMigration Hub today the young people of Noyam African Dance Institute were rehearing for @cms_moop performance tomorrow night. Their energy and commitment reduced me to tears. Literally ❤️
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Like everyone else who leads/works with @GCRF funded projects, I'm reeling from news that our budgets are to be slashed and grants terminated. We learnt about this through a public announcement on the @UKRI_News, no-one even had decency to consult with or advise us beforehand 1/
This announcement was made, ironically, on the very same day that we made our ResearchFish submission, a hellish bureaucratic system of reporting our outputs, engagements and impacts so that we can 'prove' to @UKRI_News that we are doing what we said we would do with the money 2/
Our @MIDEQHub ResearchFish submission ran to more than 250 pages of publications and engagement activities with impacts on policy debates, training, media outputs and more, all carefully documented, detailed and entered into the system 3/
'The artist and the professor, the mother and the wife' is now online for all to see. This collaboration with @LauraNyahuye of @maokwo was one of the most intense experiences, personal or professional, of my entire life and my feelings about 'going public' are mixed ...(1/?)
On the one hand I feel incredibly proud (a word I generally avoid) of the beautiful things that we have created together. I'm overwhelmed by the beauty in fact. The images. The words. These were created in the intense lockdown days and they take me back to that place...(2/?)
The lockdown forced us to stop and reflect on our lives and the work we both do in ways that would never have happened otherwise. Being forced to 'Stop', to have the opportunity to 'Breathe' was a major theme and recurring theme of our collaboration (3/?) theartistandtheprof.art.blog/2020/07/03/sto…
Funded by @covcampus@warwickuni as part of @Coventry2021 this collaboration has been undertaken entirely online during the #COVID19#lockdown It's been a powerful and challenging experience for many different reasons. We've laughed and cried, written and woven... (2/?)
For both of us this is the first time that we've had an opportunity to #stop#breathe#pause and reflect on the ways in which our own and societal expectations of gendered and racialized roles and responsibilities have shaped our lives #morethanalabel#beyondcategories (3/?)
My latest @scmrjems article with Katharine Jones draws on our #MEDMIG data to unpack the idea that the places people move to outside Europe are always 'in-between' and never intended as 'destinations', an idea that feeds into anti-immigrant discourses... tandfonline.com/eprint/MCBPYQ2…
Treating these places as 'in-between' reinforces the notion that 'everyone' is heading to Europe when they very clearly are not. In reality most people remain in the same region and rebuild their lives in these places. The notion of 'transit countries' serves the same purpose
Our evidence suggests that it is only when life becomes untenable and a decision is made to move that these places take on a state of ‘in-betweenness’, most commonly as part of a personal narrative mobilised by migrants to make sense of the broader arc of their life experiences
Yesterday's speech by @antonioguterres hit so many nails on head. #COVID-19 is shining spotlight on global injustices and issues ignored for decades: inadequate health systems; structural inequalities; environmental degradation; the climate crisis un.org/sg/en/content/…
#COVID19 is not 'the great equaliser', we are not 'all in the same boat'
Importantly @antonioguterres points to long term inequalities associated with colonisation and the unequal incorporation of countries into the global economic system as a key causal factor. It's rare to have such explicit acknowledgement of how we came to be in this mess
Never tried to live tweet from an online event but 4th UNESCO Chair currently being live-streamed contains powerful and moving material which speaks to me strongly in the context of #RefugeeWeek2020 and more generally and needs to be heard so I’m going to give it a try...
The words and experiences of refugees frame everything that’s being said but within that the gendering of refugee experiences, of human experiences of forced movement, relations between mothers and children
Integration is such a difficult concept, one of things that the team tries to do - and has done over previous lectures - is to introduce new ways of thinking about integration. The theme for this year’s lecture is ‘contemplative seeing’ as a way of reflecting on these processes