The art of belonging

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2023-09-26
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McIntyre, Joanna
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Recent unprecedented movement of migrants across Europe means that municipal leaders need to support young, often unaccompanied, involuntary migrants to adapt to their new cities. Young migrants find pathways to integration challenging, while settled urban communities experience shifting structural and social relations as new arrivals are accommodated in their neighbourhoods. This project extends existing knowledge of migration by building on established collaborations between stakeholders in Nottingham and Lund. It will analyse how place-making through arts and culture fosters a sense of engagement and supports integration, and through developing arts interventions that can be replicated in other contexts. The multi-actor interdisciplinary applied research project’s goals are to: 1) deepen conceptual understanding of how arts-based place-making activities contribute to enhanced social and relational connections between communities in urban places; 2) facilitate young migrants’ place-attachment and integration through cultural participation, with a focus on gender; 3) co-create a sustainable repertoire of tools for municipalities to use in their strategic plans for supporting migrants; 4) develop a shared knowledge platform for cities across Europe to find sustainable solutions to social integration through arts based activities that enable all citizens, including the newly arrived, to contribute to urban societies.
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Subjects
  • Political refugees
  • Refugees
  • Arts
  • Culture
  • Belonging (Social psychology)
  • Place attachment
  • asylum-seekers; refugees; arts and culture; place-making; belonging
  • Social Studies::Sociology::Applied sociology
  • Social Studies::Social work
  • H Social sciences::HM Sociology
  • H Social sciences::HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions
  • University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Social Sciences::School of Education
Deposit date
2023-09-26
Data type
Interview Transcripts
Funders
  • Economic & Social Research Council
Grant number
  • UKDS-ES/V016911/1
Coverage
  • Nottingham; Sweden
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Interviews
Legal and ethical issues
I sought advice from the Data Protection Office Team with regards to making this data publicly available. They reviewed sample transcription of audio recordings of refugee children and the adult stakeholders made by Professor Joanna Mcintyre for the Art of Belonging project to advise on how to ensure the anonymisation of the data. Their view was that the scope of the study and already published information already narrows the potential population that could have been interviewed for the project to children and adults at a single setting within a UK city. Within that setting, the potential population for interviews was thirty individuals, of whom eighteen, almost two thirds, were recorded. Their view was that significant levels of redaction would be necessary to prevent identification of individuals due to the specificity of the responses given. The transcripts identify ethnic and religious affiliation, along with work settings/ role descriptions further narrowing who the individual might be, as well for the children: specific incidents containing details of family make up and events that could enable identification. In their opinion, the amount of redaction required to anonymise these transcripts would render them generally incoherent and incomprehensible. They would be of little to no value to a third party. The same applies to the Swedish dataset. Following University guidance, where datasets cannot be anonymised and it would therefore be unethical to share them we have decided to deposit them with the UoN Research Data Archive on a no-access condition (so they are preserved for the record, and the metadata is visible, but individual transcripts cannot be released).
Resource languages
  • en
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I am requesting that would like the record and metadata to be live and searchable, but the data files themselves to be permanently embargoed / restricted (2e) of the UoN data sharing guidance.
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The University of Nottingham
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