MIDEQ: MIGRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND EQUALITY
(UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub)
South-South migration has the potential to reduce inequalities and contribute to development. This potential has yet to be fully realised.
MIDEQ works with a global network of partners in twelve countries in the Global South, organised into six migration ‘corridors’, to transform understanding of the relationships between migration, development and inequality.
We work to shift the production of knowledge about migration and its consequences towards the countries where most migration takes place – engaging with contested concepts and definitions, decolonising research processes and generating new evidence and ideas.
Our ultimate aim is to translate knowledge and ideas into policies and practices which work to improve the lives of migrants, their families and the communities in which they live.
Our mission is to ensure that South-South migration reduces inequalities and contributes to development.
The University of Glasgow team is working on cross-cutting work package Arts, creative resistance and well-being:
Where development work engages the arts and culture, it typically does so to communicate findings, educate or mediatise. Work in this theme takes a practice-led approach to understanding the relationships between migration and inequality in the context of the Global South. It engages with, but also challenges, the Global North’s measurement-heavy and largely economistic perceptions of these relationships.
As our work proceeds, this theme will consider, critically analyse and intervene artistically and through multilingual approaches to translate what resonates aesthetically. It will create migratory aesthetics, demonstrating how the arts and humanities can expand social-scientific and scientific frames of reference for research into migration and inequality, creating environments where human well-being is valued and flourishes.
You can find more detailed information about the Arts, creative resistance and well-being work package and the overall project on the MIDEQ website.
Who is involved?
Co-I and Co-Director: Prof Alison Phipps, School of Education, University of Glasgow
Research Associates: Dr Gameli Tordzro and Mr Tawona Sitholé
Research Assistant: Ms Naa Densua Tordzro
Local administrator: Ms Lauren Roberts
Start and end date
13 February 2019 - February 2024
Funder and funding amount
MIDEQ is funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
MIDEQ receives additional funding from Irish Aid
Total funding £18,759,063
Grant reference ES/S007415/
Zanj: Special Issue
This Special Issue draws on the work of migration scholars, artists, and activists from across the Global South collaborating through the South-South Migration for Development and Equality (MIDEQ) Hub to explore the intersections, contestations, and possibilities associated with migration in the Global South.1 Our aim is to contribute a better understanding of the structural inequalities – poverty, gender inequalities, and racism – that drive migration and limit its potential to contribute to personal, societal, and global development.
Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies
Volume 5, Issue 1/2 (Open Access)
Papers by Tawona Sitholé; Gameli Tordzro; Naa Densua Tordzro; Alison Phipps
Related publications
MPhil Thesis
Decolonising African costume and textiles: Naming, symbols and meaning in the Ghanaian context [Naa Densua Tordzro]
Poetry, stories and creative outputs
- our squinty house [Tawona Sitholé, 2021]
- forest songs [Tawona Sitholé, 2021]
- Afamba Apota [Paul Lamont, Tawona Sitholé, Mariem Omari, Kevin Murray, June 2024]
Podcasts
- Inequalities, Arts and Culture in Migration Studies [WP11 team, 2021]
Videos
- Ghana Must Go - Pt. 1 (Professor Akosua K. Darkwah) [Akosua K. Darkwah, Geraldine Ampah, Faisal Garba, Naa Densua Tordzro, 2023]
- Ghana Must Go - Pt. 2 (Dr Geraldine Asiwome Ampah) [Akosua K. Darkwah, Geraldine Ampah, Faisal Garba, Naa Densua Tordzro, 2023]
- GMG Art Competition [Vanessa Frema Addo, Akosua K. Darkwah, Geraldine Ampah, Faisal Garba, Naa Densua Tordzro, 2023]
Concept Notes & Briefs
- Arts, creative resistance and well-being brief [WP11 team, 2020]
- Multilingualism and Knowledge Production Concept Note [Alison Phipps, 2021]
Blog posts
- Decentring knowledge production [Alison Phipps, June 2021]
- Researching multilingually: meeting, greeting, eating [Alison Phipps, August 2020]
- Se anomaa entua obua da: 'The bird that does not fly does not eat' [Naa Densua Tordzro, August 2020]
- Memory in Sound, Silence and the Compassion of Music [Gameli Tordzro, August 2020]
- Memory, Language Learning and Remembering a Forgotten Language [Gameli Tordzro, August 2020]
- Mazwi e Nzendo: Sezvazviri (literal) [Tawona Sitholé, August 2020]
- Mazwi e Nzendo: Midziyo (items/objects) [Tawona Sitholé, August 2020]
- Mazwi e Nzendo: Zvirevo (proverbial) [Tawona Sitholé, August 2020]
- Ŋutefe Ʋɔdriba (Memory Dragon) [Gameli Tordzro, June 2020]
- hekani pa ruwaré [Tawona Sitholé, June 2020]
- Objects series: Burkina Faso [Bonayi Hubert Dabiré and Alison Phipps, June 2020]
- Vessels, Thread and Cloth [Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé, Naa Densua Tordzro, Gameli Tordzro, June 2020]
Please visit the project website for further publications by other MIDEQ members:
https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/
Project News
Please see updates on project website https://www.mideq.org/en/
Herald article on Afamba Apota radio play (20 June 2024)
University of Glasgow news article on Afamba Apota radio play (20 June 2024)
MIDEQ is profiled in the School of Education Webinar Series (3 March 2021)
Digital Textile Exhibition- Decolonising African costume and textiles: Naming, symbols and meaning in the Ghanaian context