Announcing a new Refugee Writers multi-lingual, short essay contest: New Places, New Homes!
Submissions open to ALL LANGUAGES, ALL AGES, AND ALL PEOPLE!
Refugee Writers in Dallas are looking for short narrative (non-fiction) essays about an experience that illustrates the challenges, tensions, opportunities, and personal growth that arise from moving across boarders and cultures. But not just national boarders. Moving across economic class, in or out of prison, or even just moving between neighbourhoods within a city are all great topics. They''ll publish the top essays on the Refugee Writers website, and in the coming weeks we'll be announcing prizes. Submit essays by March 1st via email to refugeewriters.submission@gmail.com
For all the details and rules go here
Friday, 18 January 2013
Friday, 11 January 2013
Afghanistan is not safe
New Stop Deportations to Afghanistan webpage. Explains why deportations to Afghanistan have to stop,
http://ncadc.org.uk/campaigns/afghanistan/
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Refugees, Capitalism and the British State.
Refugees, Capitalism and the British State: Implications for Social Workers, Volunteers and Activists. Tom Vickers book condensed into a 17 page pamphlet http://refugeescapitalismstate.wordpress.com/the-pamphlet/
It's only news if someone dies
Asylum-seekers and migrants across Europe are determined to change the inhuman circumstances of their existence.
In his new book Fortress Europe: dispatches from a gated continent, journalist Matthew Carr describes a protest in Lombardy in which five migrants climbed to the top of a crane above Brescia’s new light railway line. ‘For seventeen days they lived and slept on the arm of the crane in an audacious protest that divided Brescia and transfixed Italy’. Reflecting on this and another incident in Milan, where migrants climbed to the top of a smoke stack, he asks whether the only way for Europe’s irregular migrants to escape their invisibility is to climb to a place where they can no longer be ignored.
IRR News spoke to a UK-based freelance journalist, who told us that over the years it has become much more difficult to get asylum protests reported: news has to be different to be newsworthy.
Written by Liz Fekete from the Institute of Race Relations - read her full article here: http://www.irr.org.uk/news/from-despair-comes-resistance/
In his new book Fortress Europe: dispatches from a gated continent, journalist Matthew Carr describes a protest in Lombardy in which five migrants climbed to the top of a crane above Brescia’s new light railway line. ‘For seventeen days they lived and slept on the arm of the crane in an audacious protest that divided Brescia and transfixed Italy’. Reflecting on this and another incident in Milan, where migrants climbed to the top of a smoke stack, he asks whether the only way for Europe’s irregular migrants to escape their invisibility is to climb to a place where they can no longer be ignored.
IRR News spoke to a UK-based freelance journalist, who told us that over the years it has become much more difficult to get asylum protests reported: news has to be different to be newsworthy.
Written by Liz Fekete from the Institute of Race Relations - read her full article here: http://www.irr.org.uk/news/from-despair-comes-resistance/
Friday, 7 December 2012
Lizzie’s experience with STAR- Student Action for Refugees
Leeds University hosts a society of Student Action for Refugees (STAR), a nationwide network of student groups campaigning for refugees and asylum seekers. Funded by various grants and donations, STAR runs projects such as the Bike Project, in which they fix broken bikes to give to the refugee and asylum community, as well as campaigning to raise awareness. The biggest project in Leeds is their Common Conversation classes with asylum seekers and refugees, which one of our Press Gang members Lizzie Scourfield attended to get a greater insight into their work. In her article Lizzie discusses how “Societies like STAR are a fantastic example of projects that work both to integrate and support the refugee and asylum community.” Lizzie expressed that after her excellent experience she would highly recommend any student to get involved. To read more about what Lizzie did with STAR and the friends she made check out the link below to Press Gangs Winter Newsletter: http://lassn.org.uk/one-planet-leeds/
Book Reviews, By Peter Richardson
Read some very interesting book reviews written by Peter Richardson, Director at LASSN. Peter discusses two very different books on the topic of asylum seekers and refugees; a children’s book that Peter describes as a “fantastically simple read that does not dwell on the difficulties or horrors of asylum seekers.” As well as an academic book, that presented some extremely interesting and unique views with regards to “refugees’ experience of volunteering, and how this has not always resulted in beneficial outcomes.”
To read Peter’s book reviews in full visit the Press Gang Winter Magazine at: http://lassn.org.uk/one-planet-leeds/
Award winning children's book
The Unforgotten Coat – By Frank Cottrell Boyce
Refugees, Capitalism and the British State: Implications for social workers, volunteers and activists - By Tom Vickers
To read Peter’s book reviews in full visit the Press Gang Winter Magazine at: http://lassn.org.uk/one-planet-leeds/
Award winning children's book
The Unforgotten Coat – By Frank Cottrell Boyce
Refugees, Capitalism and the British State: Implications for social workers, volunteers and activists - By Tom Vickers
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