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Silencing refugees’ voices: past, present and future

Silencing refugees’ voices: past, present and future

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Dimos Sarantidis The silencing of refugees’ voices has been discussed in various ways. For example, the refugee, Malkki argues, is commonly [...]

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Imagining ‘the Mediterranean Migration Crisis’ from above and below. Voice, truth and power at the border of Fortress Europe.

Imagining ‘the Mediterranean Migration Crisis’ from above and below. Voice, truth and power at the border of Fortress Europe.

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Simon Parker On Skala Beach When I first arrived in Skala Sikamineas in northern Lesvos one dark night in October 2015, the [...]

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The human behind the refugee category and the industry behind refugees’ representation

The human behind the refugee category and the industry behind refugees’ representation

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Marcia Vera Espinoza We question refugees’ motivations, scrutinize their stories, generalize their persecution, feel sorry for their plight, and invisiblize their [...]

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Titanic Refugee Fictions

Titanic Refugee Fictions

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Claire Chambers A recent news story about refugee writing that has attracted much attention worldwide concerns Behrouz Boochani. This Kurdish Iranian [...]

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Image-Making Practices and Processes: refugee and migrant experience

Image-Making Practices and Processes: refugee and migrant experience

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  • November 06, 2019

Jacqueline Maingard The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018), an intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of [...]

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Telling refugees’ stories: artistic representations of and engagement with migration experiences

Telling refugees’ stories: artistic representations of and engagement with migration experiences

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Evangeline Tsao As millions of people are displaced worldwide as a consequence of wars, climate crisis and famine, over the past [...]

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Migrant families speaking out and speaking up to creatively challenge stereotypical representations

Migrant families speaking out and speaking up to creatively challenge stereotypical representations

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Umut Erel, Maggie O'Neill, Erene Kaptani, Tracey Reynolds In our recent research project Participation Arts and Social Action in Research - [...]

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Migrant language policy in England: missing the multilingual turn

Migrant language policy in England: missing the multilingual turn

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Sam Hellmuth Last year I had the privilege of meeting up with a group of Syrian women and men, newly settled [...]

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Afghan Interpreters Demand Rights, Not Favours

Afghan Interpreters Demand Rights, Not Favours

  • By discoversociety
  • November 06, 2019

Sara de Jong Recognising migrants as political actors is one important way to work against the representation of migrants as voiceless [...]

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FOCUS: Class, Race, Brexit

FOCUS: Class, Race, Brexit

  • By discoversociety
  • October 02, 2019

Michaela Benson It has been over three years since Britain’s referendum on their membership of the European Union. In the [...]

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