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
Marcia Vera Espinoza We question refugees’ motivations, scrutinize their stories, generalize their persecution, feel sorry for their plight, and invisiblize their [...]
Read moreTitanic Refugee Fictions
Claire Chambers A recent news story about refugee writing that has attracted much attention worldwide concerns Behrouz Boochani. This Kurdish Iranian [...]
Read moreImage-Making Practices and Processes: refugee and migrant experience
Jacqueline Maingard The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018), an intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of [...]
Read moreTelling refugees’ stories: artistic representations of and engagement with migration experiences
Evangeline Tsao As millions of people are displaced worldwide as a consequence of wars, climate crisis and famine, over the past [...]
Read moreMigrant families speaking out and speaking up to creatively challenge stereotypical representations
Umut Erel, Maggie O'Neill, Erene Kaptani, Tracey Reynolds In our recent research project Participation Arts and Social Action in Research - [...]
Read moreMigrant language policy in England: missing the multilingual turn
Sam Hellmuth Last year I had the privilege of meeting up with a group of Syrian women and men, newly settled [...]
Read moreAfghan Interpreters Demand Rights, Not Favours
Sara de Jong Recognising migrants as political actors is one important way to work against the representation of migrants as voiceless [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Class, Race, Brexit
Michaela Benson It has been over three years since Britain’s referendum on their membership of the European Union. In the [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: The politics of rights and representation – how CNN reported on Ghanaian ‘child slaves’ who were not enslaved
Samuel Okyere, Kwame Agyemang and Betty Mensah On March 1 2019, CNN aired a video titled, Freeing the child slaves of Lake [...]
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