From the Margins to the Centre Stage Policy Day

The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness among different people working with families, children, migration, arts and social participation more widely about the experiences of families with no recourse to public funding. We have found that there is little awareness of the situation of this group of families and we would like to use the day to begin some conversations across different areas of policy, practice and expertise on how to challenge this policy and highlight its detrimental effects on families, communities and social justice more widely.

This research project that looks in particular at how participatory theatre and walking methods can help us better understand the ways migrant families engage in making the social spaces they live in. We are drawing on PAR principles of producing socially relevant research and enabling a dialogue between participants, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.

The policy day combined a number of formats such: keynote talks by Baroness Ruth Lister on the wider policy context and Colin Yeo on the legal aspects of this policy. Then performance and interactive workshop exercises along with small group discussions and a roundtable.

Workshop Progamme

Workshop Videos

Ruth Lister's Talk