Umut Erel is a sociologist at the Open University. She has published widely on gender, migration, racism and citizenship. She is interested in creative and participatory methods and was principal investigator in the Participation Arts and Social Action in Research (PASAR) project.
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Published in: HomeHow an artist-academic collaboration worked to amplify migrant women’s voices
Artists and researchers collaborated with migrant families to address complex, politically and emotionally...
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Published in: HomeStealing stories for art: migration, voyeurism and the appropriation of injustice
In On a Wing and a Prayer, we cross London's Rotherhithe tunnel by foot, mirroring the journey of people like Abdul...
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Published in: HomeBearing witness
How can the stories we tell about tragic experiences connect people and create cultures of bearing witness and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
“If all the Europeans leave, who work so hard and they pay taxes, how are they going to manage to keep the benefit...
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Published in: HomeMigrant Mothers: creative interventions into citizenship
We can learn from the way that migrant mothers make a place for themselves and their children in a society which...