This research aims to explore the role of objects and rituals in migrant spaces through artistic practices of engagement. By their nature, often migrant communities have been marginalised and have created for themselves a somewhat closed-in community, that would appear difficult to assess and understand through empirical and documentary research. Therefore, this project aims to engage with a community in Birmingham through a more socially engaged artistic practice that would find new ethnographic approaches to understand habits,rituals and objects that have been followed and produced in the migrant community. This is explored through site-specific gathering of knowledge in closed and hard to access marginalised migrant communities such as Birmingham, predicted by 2024 to have a higher proportion of population from black and Asian communities than from white backgrounds. So as the number of migrant families is going to increase, the work is aimed to be site-specific and intergenerational. The idea is to conduct an auto-ethnographic research in Balsall Heath in Birmingham that is embedded into my an art practice, through making, materiality and performance.

This research aims also to highlight the potential of new strategies for documenting and researching the struggle of women using techniques of subverting and communicating their identity and struggle in the diaspora, for examples through knits, weaves and very intimate uses of materials. It is through collecting, analysing and redesigning these artefacts that this project aims to map and document the conditions of women, their networks of exchange and the particular spatial relation that arises of the experience of migration.