Diasporas, Migration and Identities is a trans- disciplinary research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It includes arts and humanities scholars from all over the UK working on individual research, large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, and in international networks. The aim is to research, discuss and present issues related to diasporas and migration, and their past and present impact on subjectivity and identity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics and sociality.
Unfortunately all funding for the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme has now been allocated.
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The Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme Final Event took place on Wednesday 10 February 2010 at Tate Britain. View the Programme for the day here. You can see a showreel from the event here. See our News and Events page for more details.
You can now see the Findings and Achievements of our small research grants, as well as our networks and workshops projects and some of the large grant projects
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Striking Women: Voices of South Asian Workers
This free exhibition was held at the Women's Library, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT
from 8 October - 31 March 2010
www.leeds.ac.uk/strikingwomen
Devolving diasporas: migration and reception in Central Scotland, 1980 - present
Despite the current UK interest in diasporic texts (e.g. Small Island) and authors (e.g. Zadie Smith), little is yet known about the actual readers of migrant literature and of how they make sense of the texts they read. Still less is known about the consumption and production of meaning in relation to these texts beyond the metropolitan centre. One of our primary objectives within this context is a detailed analysis of the reception of diasporic cultural production in Central Scotland. By recording a network of 5 reading groups in this region, empirical access to the ‘live’ reception of diasporic texts will be made available for the first time.
Viewed in isolation the Scottish reception data tells us little about diasporic cultural production as a global, or transnational event. Our aim is to develop the case study of readers in Central Scotland to produce a comparative reading of diasporic reception by extending the network to incorporate a further 5 groups in Canada, India, North Africa, and the Caribbean. Reading groups within these dispersed locations will be recorded discussing the same texts as their Scottish counterparts, allowing us to identify and assess similarities and differences between reading values, priorities and interpretations. All reading groups will be networked via an online chat room, allowing individual readers to extend their discussion of the texts within a larger virtual 'community'. More
Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: a Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa
Our study principally engages with the notion of diasporic networks and how these function in cultural and artistic milieus. We suggest that artists who create or enter such networks make use of, but go far beyond the traditional ‘bi-focal’, ethnically and spatially defined communities that link originating and sending countries, as studied in much Diaspora research. This project therefore focuses on the ways in which (post-)migrant artists and cultural practitioners originating from North-Africa and Madagascar are able to use complex networks across African, European and wider global spaces. Our proposed case-studies of Francophone artists in countries of origin, and across selected European spaces build on our own and other researchers' prior work in diasporic metropolitan centres, but follow the complexities of transnational networks beyond these clustered links. Through empirical studies of artists and cultural practitioners we aim to provide new insights into their creative practices, throw light on their identifications in their artistic and every-day life, their motivations, modes of cultural and social engagement, on opportunities or barriers within and beyond their art. More
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