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SUMMARY:Maria Abranches (East Anglia). When the Dust Settles: Exploring T
 emporalities amongst Reunited Refugee Families through Multi-Media Narra
 tives
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar will reflect on the results of one year of field
 work with refugee families in Manchester and Glasgow using a co-producti
 on approach based on narrative interviews and participant-led photograph
 y and film to understand post-reunion lived experience. While the conseq
 uences of separation following displacement\, and the most immediate nee
 ds of refugee families once reunited\, are well documented\, continued s
 upport for refugee families is often inexistent or insufficient due to l
 imited understanding of the challenges that occur in the longer term. Cr
 eated by Dr Maria Abranches (University of East Anglia) and Amy Lythgoe 
 (Together Now [togethernow.org.uk])\, and supported by a British Academy
  Innovation Fellowship\, the project explored how refugee families under
 stand and respond to new and ongoing challenges they face after their fi
 rst year together in the UK. Through photography and film\, participant 
 families chose to represent the experiences and responses they considere
 d important for what they defined as their own research objective – to “
 correct stereotypes”. In the process\, we explored the temporalities tha
 t were at the centre of people’s narratives. From the abruptness of init
 ial displacement to long\, fragmented\, and uncertain journeys\, a rushe
 d sense of time and accelerated frenzy generated by fear of sudden deten
 tion or deportation upon arrival\, and the slowness of years waiting for
  the decision of asylum claims and family reunion applications\, the fam
 ilies we worked with move on to a more active and strategic waiting wher
 e a sense of direction and hope is associated with renewed possibilities
  for making a future.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Room 5.205\, University Place\, Manchester
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