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Transport Yourself to a Better Place<\/em><\/h2>\n

2017-2021<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Amy\/Cordelia\/Daisy\/Marilyn\/Qiana\/Solace Women\u2019s Aid\/Janet Bowstead<\/p>\n

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The research is on women\u2019s domestic violence journeys in the UK, exploring the emotional, policy and practical issues of being forced to escape intimate partner violence.\u00a0 Women and their children experience forced internal displacement and often multiple stages of temporary accommodation and delayed resettlement.\u00a0 Participatory photography was carried out with groups of women in three areas of London: two groups in women\u2019s refuges where women would soon be on the move again, and one at a women\u2019s centre with women who were beginning to resettle.\u00a0 Over weekly sessions, participants used their photography and captions to communicate their experiences of mobility, producing images, maps and collages for themselves, for the group, for display in women\u2019s services, and for wider presentation through the research.\u00a0 Whilst recognising what they had lost, women also focused on what they could take with them, and on sharing messages of strength and hope to reach other women they imagined making similar forced journeys.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the specialist domestic violence service provider Solace Women\u2019s Aid, which assisted with arranging and carrying out the group work; and to all the women who shared their experiences, insights and images.\u00a0 The work was supported by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.<\/p>\n

Women took the slogan from a London bus as a metaphor for their own journeys from abuse to freedom.\u00a0 As a mixture of London-born women, and women who had come to London, they took many photographs of their journeys around London on public and private transport, documenting their growing confidence and familiarity with different routes.\u00a0 Within the groups they also shared knowledge of places and journeys \u2013 taking photographs and developing maps of useful locations and services for other women they imagined coming after them.\u00a0 Captions to the photographs included \u201cThere is always a \u2018Way Out\u2019!\u201d and emphasising in the image of traffic lights that \u201call the lights are green!\u201d\u00a0 Through the groupwork women explored their experiences of displacement and resettlement, and brought their individual images together into collages to show their collaboration.<\/p>\n

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