Anonymity and representation

Blomfield, Isobel; Lenette, Caroline

doi:10.33178/alpha.18.13

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“…Objective 1: The extent of current publications using music in migrant health research and identifying itself as ABR The fourteen publications identified in our review were written by a total of twenty-five authors, with a number of authors featuring in several publications. Lennette appears in five (Blomfield & Lenette, 2018;Blomfield & Lenette, 2019;Lenette, 2019;Lenette et al, 2019;Sunderland et al, 2015) Nunn in three (Nunn, 2016;Nunn, 2017;Nunn, 2018); and Bagley & Castro-Salazar in two (Bagley & Castro-Salazar, 2012;Bagley & Castro-Salazar, 2019). While some of the publications are single authored pieces (Hudson, 2016;Lenette, 2019;Nunn, 2016;Nunn, 2017;Nunn, 2018), all of the studies report on collaborative and/or participatory arts-based research projects with multidisciplinary (Hiltunen et al, 2020) and interdisciplinary (Harkins et al, 2016;Sunderland et al, 2015) teams.…”

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A scoping review of the use of music as an arts-based method in migrant health research

Garry,

MacFarlane,

Murphy Tighe

et al. 2023

HRB Open Res

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Background There is a growing awareness of the need to include people’s lived experiences in health decision-making. While much progress has been made in this field, exclusionary patterns persist regarding migrant participation in health research. The aim of this scoping review was to examine the available literature around the use of music as an arts-based research (ABR) method in migrant health research in order to extend knowledge of creative methods and tools used for migrant participation in health research. Methods Our review follows a scoping review methodology. Searches were conducted in 11 electronic databases between June and August, 2020. We identified 14 eligible references published between January 2009 and August 2020. We analysed how music is utilised as an arts-based research method in community-based health and wellbeing contexts primarily with refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, and members of resettled immigrant communities. Results The findings show that music’s role is most prominent as a tool for recruitment and engagement followed by its use as a tool for dissemination. Music is effective as a means to co-produce and communicate knowledge of lived experiences of migration and related wellbeing issues. Recommendations and conclusions Our recommendations for further research include the need for increased detail on the musical element in ABR projects; Explicit identification of such research as ABR; Greater recognition of a multi-arts understanding of music in the context of ABR; Harnessing the potential of music in ABR across the research cycle. We conclude that arts-based research using music shows promise for capturing the complexity of migrants’ lives and health issues in an ethical way. It warrants further investigation in empirical studies in multiple clinical and community settings to understand its processes and impacts on the evidence base for migrant health.

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Section: Summary Of Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A scoping review of the use of music as an arts-based method in migrant health research

Garry,

MacFarlane,

Murphy Tighe

et al. 2023

HRB Open Res

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“…The international participatory media project Children in Communication about Migration (Buckingham and De Block, 2007: 43) reminds us that visual representations of children's migratory experiences have to be carefully embedded in practice-based reflections on a project's power relations between film educators-researchers and participants. Critical questions about the ethics of representing and collaborating with refugees in film projects are also raised by Blomfield and Lenette (2019), who point towards the depersonalizing tropes and objectifying tendencies that haunt the tradition of representing 'the universal refugee story' in observational, ethnographic film-making. This depersonalizing tendency of visual representation is mirrored in the public communication spaces of news and social media (Bleiker et al, 2013;Bleiker, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Reflexive documentarians (Blomfield and Lenette, 2019;Thomas, 2012Thomas, , 2017Hughes, 2019;Aufderheide et al, 2009) rightly draw our attention to the importance of thinking and acting situationally. Practical aesthetic and ethical strategies have to be negotiated with participants that reduce the film-maker-researcher-participant power imbalances and can respond flexibly to young people's 'utopian desire'.…”

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confidence: 99%

Voice, autonomy and utopian desire in participatory film-making with young refugees

Frimberger

Bishopp²

2020

FEJ

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This article is a reflection on what reflexive documentary scholars call the ‘moral dimension’ ( Nash, 2012 : 318) of a participatory film-making project with refugee young people who wanted to make a film to support other new young arrivals in the process of making home in Scotland. In the first part, we highlight some of the challenges of collaborating with refugee young people, in light of the often dehumanizing representations of refugees in mainstream media and the danger of the triple conflation of authenticity–voice–pain in academic narratives about refugees. In the second part, we show how honouring young people’s desire to convey the hopeful aspects of making home emerged as a key pedagogical strategy to affirm their expert position and encourage their participation in the project. Revisiting key moments of learning and interaction, we demonstrate how young people’s process of ‘finding a voice’ in moment-by-moment film-making practice was not a linear, developmental process towards ‘pure’ individual empowerment and singular artistic expression. Their participation in shaping their visual (self-)representation in the final film was embedded in the dialogical process and pragmatic requirements of a collaborative film production, in which voice, autonomy and teacher authority were negotiated on a moment-by-moment basis. We conclude that it is vital for a reflexive practice and research not to gloss over the moral dilemmas in the name of progressive ideals, for example, when representations are co-created by project film-makers/educators, but to embrace these deliberations as part of the ‘fascinating collaborative matrix’ ( Chambers, 2019 : 29) of participatory film-making.

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“…Like a number of arts-based research methods, deploying participatory video can have broader political potential (Blomfield & Lenette, 2019;Lenette, 2019). For instance, Alexandra (2008, p. 101) points out that "[i]ndividually selecting a story and collaboratively producing the audio-visual expression of that tale presents new possibilities concerning the politics and ethics of storytelling" in forced migration scholarship.…”

Section: Political Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We have discussed in our previous writing (Blomfield & Lenette, 2018; that we are committed to research approaches that challenge the dominance of scholarly work from people who have not experienced forced migration. We have acknowledged that due to our privilege as people who do not experience visa uncertainty or fear for our safety in Australia, we can always identify ourselves in our publications and presentations, whereas protagonists-filmmakers may not be in a position to do so (see Blomfield & Lenette, 2019 for such an example).…”

Section: The "Changing Lives One Degree At a Time" Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-Representation in Participatory Video Research

Lenette

Blomfield

Bordbar

et al. 2020

Art/Research International

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Participatory video involves co-researchers using digital or video cameras to create their own videos and present issues according to their sense of what is important. In 2018, the authors—including three co-researchers from refugee backgrounds—collaborated through participatory video research to document views on better access and participation in higher education. Here, we reflect on key ethical issues encountered and share lessons learnt from our project. Our aim is not to discredit this methodology but to contribute new discussions on how participatory video can be used effectively as a form of self-representation to target wide audiences and effect social and policy change. This way, debates on the social and political potentialities of arts-based methods such as participatory video can be expanded. Since deploying participatory video in forced migration research is a relatively novel approach, there is much scope to expand the contours of knowledge on its potential to reach diverse audiences and open up new opportunities for social and political impact.

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Anonymity and representation

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

A scoping review of the use of music as an arts-based method in migrant health research

A scoping review of the use of music as an arts-based method in migrant health research

Voice, autonomy and utopian desire in participatory film-making with young refugees

Self-Representation in Participatory Video Research

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