Benefits to Participants

We anticipate that the benefits to contributors will be many and varied.

We aim to:

• deploy these testimonies when and where possible to identify specific issues and suggest solutions and to communicate these in short briefing papers to support NGOs and charities to raise awareness among publics and policymakers of the many ways in which Covid-19 disproportionately affects all people living in poverty and experiencing multiple forms of insecurity.
• communicate our academic findings with a focus on active citizenship and a recognition of rights and responsibilities (for example, the rights of all children enshrined in national and international law to access education and the consequent need to access to technologies).
• ensure the project brings benefits to all involved, especially during confinement and lock down, collectively inspiring a sense of shared purpose and collective achievement in documenting the crisis, co-creating and sharing knowledge.
• curate these cultural artefacts so that researchers and publics can access this archive both during the present crisis as well as in the future to being to light the specific nature of problems facing migrant groups and to inform policy, practice and academic knowledge.
• enable a creative research process during which refugee researchers receive additional training and become multipliers in their communities in use of creative methods to promote active and participatory citizenship.
• enhance understandings of the potentialities and risks of new technologies for migrants, taking surveillance practices into account, including in relation to geo-location through mobile smartphones, and strategies for remaining both visible and under the radar of governance institutions.