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Accepted Paper:

Away from home: a visual research project exploring the ideas of community, home and migration through the transnational lives of Burmese families.  
Tammy Law (RMIT)

Paper short abstract:

Away From Home engages in the lived experiences of displacement from the perspectives of transnational Burmese family members. Through ethnographic approaches, this series of documentary photographic works develop new understandings of the complexities of being a refugee both at home and away.

Paper long abstract:

At a time of increasing displacement and familial upheaval, it is surprising how little is known about who, where, how and why people get on in transcultural familial situations or how difference is lived on the ground. This visual research project seeks to fill a gap in the literature regarding themes of displacement, migration and notions of home. Away From Home aims to engage in the lived experiences of displacement from the perspectives of Burmese family members living 'here' and 'there'. Drawing on the 'ordinariness' of interactions across familial divisions, this project will consist of a series of documentary photographic works. These works, along with the exegesis, aim to develop new understandings of the multidimensional complexities of being a refugee - both home and away - and expand on longstanding traditions of documentary practice. Ethnographic approaches such as open-ended informal interviews, visual ethnography and sensory ethnography will be key when investigating the experiences of families from Burma. The use of visual methods and media are important to provide insights into the unspoken relationships between researcher and participant, refugees and their environments.

Panel Cre01
The art and sensibility of being ethnographic: moral responsibility and future orientations
  Session 1