A socially engaged art project conducted in Malta in 2021 brought together a group of participants from different sub-Saharan African countries with artists and researchers to promote civic engagement and cultural inclusion and understand how participants' ideas could be promoted and discussed beyond the workshop. This article addresses one of the project's central themes – citizenship – and argues that democratic participation is enacted in the actual processes of social practice in art. Informed by the principles of Global Citizenship Education, the article highlights its references to human solidarity, empathy and sustainable development and distinguishes them from a notion of citizenship that is framed within the legal, political and physical boundaries of the nation-state. While the segregation of non-citizens in contexts like this can interfere with the development of voices of resistance and a sense of agency among migrants, the article explains how principles of Global Citizenship Education can enrich socially engaged practices in art and education by subverting fixed citizen identities in the performance of pedagogical processes and acts of presentation.

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“这真的是欧洲吗？” 移民、社会实践与全球公民的表现

2021 年在马耳他开展的一项社会参与艺术项目汇集了来自撒哈拉以南非洲不同国家的一群参与者以及艺术家和研究人员，以促进公民参与和文化包容，并了解如何在研讨会之外推广和讨论参与者的想法。本文探讨了该项目的中心主题之一——公民身份——并论证了民主参与是在艺术社会实践的实际过程中实施的。受全球公民教育原则的启发，这篇文章强调了它对人类团结、同理心和可持续发展的提及，并将它们与在民族国家的法律、政治和物理边界内构建的公民概念区分开来。