Le 8 avril dernier, le site du CNRS Pouchet à Paris a accueilli un événement marquant pour le projet de recherche « Grandir aux Frontières » (Growing Up Across Borders – GRABS). Cette rencontre, qui s’est tenue au CRESPPA, a réuni chercheurs, acteurs associatifs et jeunes participants autour d’une ambition commune : valoriser la parole…
With many thanks to all the young people who participated during the focus group discussions, as well as Julie & Gillian at the Halifax Refugee Clinic, and Kathryn, Hayat, Saeed, Hakhmet & Roda at the YMCA Youth Outreach In February, as part of my doctoral fieldwork research within the GRABS project, I was in K’jipuktuk-Halifax*,…
From 8 to 25 January, Glenda Santana de Andrade conducted a field trip in Johannesburg as part of the Growing Up Across Borders (GRABS) project, in close collaboration with our local partners RCP – Refugee Children’s Project and Aron Tesfai. The visit focused on participatory creative workshops using photography and podcasting with young people. The objective was to create…
Jane and Glenda led a second phase of participatory research activities in Paris involving participatory photography workshops with two groups of young women. One photography workshop was carried out in partnership with the Utopia56 association. All participants were minors, some of them currently awaiting recognition of their status as unaccompanied minors. The second photography workshop,…
Two of our team — Jane Freedman and Glenda Santana de Andrade — conducted a two-part trip to South Africa between 11 and 29 November 2025, working closely with young people on the move and with our valued local partners, Africa Unite and Refugee Social Services. Cape Town (11–24 November): Podcast & Photography Production with Africa Unite From 11 to…
In October 2025 Jane and Izzy visited Athens to work with young people in situations of forced migration. We met young women and men at two organisations – Melissa Network and Velos Youth. It was great to spend time there and talk to the young people about their different experiences. One of the issues that…
The first round of participatory activities in Paris has now come to an end. In this initial phase, we organised focus group discussions and held two participatory photography workshops and one podcast workshop with young participants.
In January, the young people we work with in Athens, Greece, were presented with a printed copy of their photobooks! These books were created from a series of photovoice workshops in October, organised in collaboration with Velos Youth and Melissa Network. Participants took fantastic pictures, discussed each other’s work meaningfully and categorised their photos. The…
In late July, Juan Manuel Moreno, one of GRABS PhD candidates, travelled to K’jipuktuk-Halifax, in Eastern Canada for a two-week fieldwork and scoping visit. K’jipuktuk-Halifax is the ancestral land of the Mi’kmaq who lived in these lands for over 11000 years. Today, K’jipuktuk-Halifax is the capital of what is known as the province of Nova…
Insights and Challenges at the UK-France Border This blog post shares some initial findings and reflections from our research scoping trip to Calais and Dunkerque at the end of January 2025. By Isabel Morrell At the end of January, our team embarked on a scoping trip to Calais and Dunkerque on the north coast of…
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