Committed to exploring democratic ways of doing research with migrant women and taking up Umut Erel’s concept of women migrants ‘enacting citizenship', this article shares some of the results of participatory research conducted with women seeking asylum in the North East of England.
Together with the regional refugee forum and a women’s group we developed a participatory arts and participatory action research project that focused upon women’s lives and well-being in order to do a range of things. We wanted to better understand asylum seeking, refugee and undocumented women’s experiences of living in a city in the North East. We felt the need to challenge and change sexual and social inequalities; and we wanted to stimulate arts-based outcomes to enable us to share what we learned across a wider public in order to impact upon policy and praxis.
