Pinar Aksu
Research title: Art and Justice: using art-based practices for social change
Research summary
Research title
Art and Law in Migration: Art practices for social change and access to Justice
Current research
My research focuses on how art practices are and can be used for creating social change in migration. To understand how different organisations, law practitioners and artists are working on the theme of migration; understand, use, impacted and want to change the law. A particular focus is on deepening understandings of and connections between access to justice, law, rights, dignity, social change and arts in migration. Focusing:
- What is Justice?
- What does change mean?
- How can art practices contribute to social change?
The connection between law, change, justice and theatre is more apparant with the recent immigration law changes, such as the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Rwanda Act 2024.
My research further looks at the connection between International Legal Framework on Migration in connection to protection.
Publications
2024
Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, 37(3), p. 835. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae053)
Yohannes, Hyab 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and AKSU, Pinar
(2024)
A Story Growing from Traces.
[Website]
Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae005)
2023
Piacentini, Teresa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Gilmour, Molly, Joy, Annika and Aksu, Pinar
(2023)
“How about asylum seekers who are homeless?” The racialised logics behind State designed strategies of containment and control during Covid-19 and anti-racist alternatives: a Glasgow case study.
International Journal on Homelessness, 3(1),
pp. 2-16.
(doi: 10.5206/ijoh.2022.2.14969)
2021
Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Piacentini, Teresa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Millar, David, Aksu, Pinar and Mainwaring, Cetta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8264-2765
(2021)
Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?
[Audio]
Articles
Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, 37(3), p. 835. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae053)
Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae005)
Piacentini, Teresa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Gilmour, Molly, Joy, Annika and Aksu, Pinar
(2023)
“How about asylum seekers who are homeless?” The racialised logics behind State designed strategies of containment and control during Covid-19 and anti-racist alternatives: a Glasgow case study.
International Journal on Homelessness, 3(1),
pp. 2-16.
(doi: 10.5206/ijoh.2022.2.14969)
Audio
Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Piacentini, Teresa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Millar, David, Aksu, Pinar and Mainwaring, Cetta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8264-2765
(2021)
Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?
[Audio]
Website
Yohannes, Hyab ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and AKSU, Pinar
(2024)
A Story Growing from Traces.
[Website]
Supervisors
Grants
- UNESCO Rila Scholarship
