CA25169 - Justice, Arts, Memory, Migration —Creating Solidarities across Borders (JAMM)

This Action responds to an urgent epistemic and structural gap within European research and policy landscapes: the limited recognition, coordination, and sustainability of arts-based research (ABR) in migration, diversity, and cultural heritage studies. Despite the growing number of participatory and cultural initiatives across Europe, these practices remain undervalued, poorly connected, and rarely integrated into mainstream infrastructures and policy frameworks. Conventional approaches privilege abstract theorising and quantitative data, overlooking the embodied, affective, and creative forms of knowledge that emerge through artistic collaboration and community participation.

JAMM – Justice, Arts, Memory, Migration: Creating Solidarities across Borders brings together a transdisciplinary network of scholars, artists, and cultural practitioners to address these gaps by developing a European platform for arts-based research grounded in justice, arts, heritage, memory, and migration. It connects diverse disciplines—from anthropology and cultural studies to art, technology, geography, and political theory—and fosters cross-sectoral dialogue between academia, civil society, and cultural institutions.

The Action’s five Working Groups tackle interconnected challenges: recognising arts-based epistemologies; fostering equitable co-creation; documenting creative processes; enhancing public visibility and impact; and ensuring sustainability beyond individual projects. Through shared methodological standards, living archives, digital infrastructures, and policy toolkits, JAMM consolidates and systematises ABR within European migration and heritage research.

By doing so, the Action delivers cultural and epistemic justice, recognising the experiences, memories, and creative expressions of people on the move as integral to Europe’s shared cultural heritage and advancing inclusive, sustainable collaboration across borders.