| Curatorial Practice | Refugee Initiative |
2021 – Present
Co-Funder: Hsiao-Chi Chu & Chunyuan Hu
Grant Education Programs of Human Rights, National Human Rights Museum, TW
2022 & 2023
Website: 難民路徑｜Refugee Path & 台灣難民週｜Refugee Week Taiwan Relevant: 共筆資料庫 Database
In search of another possibility, people set out on the road of migration — seeking a place where they need no longer be merely passing through. Yet in the turbulence of drifting and displacement, freedom is not always found.
According to UNHCR, approximately 80 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced — some internally, others fleeing across borders to seek asylum in other countries. These real events, though they may seem distant, are in fact very close, present in the everyday lives that surround us. Perhaps because refugee issues feel geographically remote, not everyone is familiar with the ongoing realities of forced displacement, or with the conditions that cause it.
Refugee Path was initiated by its two founders — Chu Hsiao-Chi (founder of Weave the Edge) and Hu Chun-Yuan (founder of Refugee 101 Taiwan) — drawing on their professional backgrounds in forced migration and refugee studies, field experience across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe, and years of facilitating workshops on forced displacement and refugee issues. Through this series of co-writing discussion workshops, each session engages with a specific case to collectively build a knowledge-based platform for exploring forced displacement and refugee issues: the Forced Migration Database.
To bring greater public attention to refugee issues, we launched a World Refugee Day exhibition in Taipei in 2020 — Together: Voices Across Borders. From there, beginning in 2021, we organised a series of refugee talks and workshops drawing on different case studies — Refugee Path & Refugee Week Taiwan.
We decided to initiate refugee-related activities in Taiwan every year: to make this a platform for discussing refugee issues, and to seek pathways for change.
為了尋找另一種可能，人們踏上遷徙的路途，尋覓一個讓自己不再只是過客的地方。然而，在飄移與流動的顛簸中，並非總能找到自由。
根據聯合國難民署 (UNHCR) 統計，全球約有8000萬人被迫遷移，有些在境內流離失所，有些則逃出邊境，前往他國尋求庇護，這些真實事件雖看似遙遠，其實很近，存在於你我周遭的日常生活之中。或許因為難民議題相對遙遠，並非所有人都熟知持續發生的強迫遷徙／難民議題，與為何導致強迫遷徙／難民的因素。
《難民路徑》由兩位發起者，朱筱琪（織事｜Weave the Edge 發起者）、胡鈞媛（Refugee 101 Taiwan 發起者），整合過往於強迫遷徙／難民學科與研究的專業背景、遊走於中東、亞洲、非洲與歐洲各地之田野實地經驗，及延伸推廣強迫遷徙／難民議題工作坊經驗，透過此次「系列共筆討論工作坊」，將透過每次的案例討論，建構探討強迫遷徙／難民議題之知識性的整合平台——《強迫遷徙資料庫》。
為了讓更多人關注難民議題，2020年，我們在台北發起世界難民日展覽——《疫起呼吸——穿透邊界的聲音》 (Together —— Voices Across Borders)。 從這裡開始，2021年起我們舉辦了多場以不同案例分享的難民講座和工作坊——《難民路徑》（Refugee Path）與 《台灣難民週 》(Refugee Week Taiwan)。
於是，我們決定每年在台灣發起難民相關活動。 讓這裡成為討論難民問題的平台。 尋找改變難民議題的途徑。
▎Co-Founder
Hsiao-Chi Chu （織事 ｜Weave the Edge Facilitator）
Cross-disciplinary practitioner with a focus on art, cultural heritage, migration, refugees, and humanitarian development. Experienced in exhibition curation, community-based art projects, human rights advocacy, and international NGO work, with field experience across Mongolia, Palestine, Cambodia, Eswatini, and the Netherlands. Founder of Refugee Path and Taiwan Refugee Week, promoting inclusive engagement with forced displacement and global issues in Taiwan. She is also the author of The Forgotten Heritage in Palestine (2023). Passionate about connecting cultural practice with social justice, displacement narratives, and sustainable development.
跨領域實踐者，專注於藝術、文化遺產、移民難民與人道發展議題。具備策展、社區藝術計畫、人權倡議及國際 NGO 工作經驗，曾於蒙古、巴勒斯坦、柬埔寨、史瓦帝尼與荷蘭進行田野工作。《難民路徑》與《台灣難民週》創辦人，致力於推動台灣社會對強迫遷徙與全球難民議題的多元參與。同時也是《遊走邊緣的國度：那些被遺忘的流亡行李——巴勒斯坦》（2023）的作者。持續探索文化實踐與社會正義、流離敘事及永續發展之間的深層連結。
Chun-Yuan Hu （Refugee 101 Taiwan Facilitator）
Chun-Yuan Hu is the initiator of Refugee 101 Taiwan, a project aiming to raise public awareness of global refugee issues. She studied MA Education, Health Promotion and International Development at University College London. She has had over 100 interactive workshops (both online and on-site) and talks on refugee issues in 16 counties in Taiwan and Malaysia.
關注議題包含難民政策、教育、以及社會融入。畢業於倫敦大學學院教育和國際發展碩士班，論文研究約旦高等教育機構如何支持難民學生，2018年曾於安曼人權研究中心實習，目前在英國從事難民安置工作。Refugee 101 Taiwan計畫發起人，舉辦逾一百場實體和線上難民議題工作坊與講座，觸及全台十六個縣市和馬來西亞，互動式工作坊讓參與者體驗難民尋求庇護遇到的困境，以及討論臺灣未來可能的難民政策。
織事｜Weave the Edge 