Explorations of Resilience and Intersectional Discrimination: Visual art-based research with young women with refugee experience

It’s a cold Monday afternoon in November, the fog is beginning to settle for the evening over a small town in Sardinia. Some young women are in an apartment cooking in the kitchen and listening to Nigerian music on YouTube. The boiler in the apartment is broken again which means filling pans on the stove for a shower. One of the young women, Thatcher, is sitting in the living room, looking at one of her pictures. She starts to talk about her experiences as a Black* woman in an Italian reception center. She is one of the participants in a research project about the resilience of women with refugee experience. Together with the photographer [Gemma Lynch](https://www.gemmalynch.com/) and the researcher [Sabine Tiefenthaler](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sabine-Tiefenthaler-2) seven young women from Nigeria are working on a PhotoVoice project called “[Immigrant Sisterhood](https://diespinnerei.wordpress.com/)”.

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