1110, 2021

Migrant Caravans in Mexico: The flight from a jail city

By Louisa Brain|October 11, 2021|Uncategorized|0 comments

The following article was first published in Spanish in Pie de Pagina (02/09/2021): https://piedepagina.mx/caravana-de-migrantes-huir-de-la-ciudad-carcel/ ). It is written as a Collective Text from the (Im)Mobility in the Americas and COVID-19 project being conducted by Noda Mexico* and is shared via the Life Facing Deportation Project – exploring the impact of deportation regimes on the lives of migrant communities in Mexico, Guatemala and the USA. The caravans are proof of how the

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1407, 2021

Can the Syrians speak?

By Louisa Brain|July 14, 2021|Uncategorized|0 comments

By Ammar Azzouz. Dr Ammar Azzouz is an architect at Arup and a Short-Term Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. He completed his PhD in architecture at the University of Bath, UK. His Twitter handle: @Dr_Ammar_Azzouz It was 2018, a panel was organised at one of the UK universities on Syria. I booked my ticket and went to attend. The meeting venue was

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2306, 2021

Exploring the intersections of domestic violence, migration and the COVID-19 pandemic with Latin America Women’s Rights Service

By Louisa Brain|June 23, 2021|Uncategorized|0 comments

by Gabriela Loureiro. This blog was originally published on the Connecting During Covid website. Our research, Connecting During Covid, is revealing how existing gender and socio-economic inequalities within and across migrant communities have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic for over a year now. Of particular concern is the increase in domestic violence cases in the UK which has been described as ‘an epidemic beneath a pandemic’. In April 2021,

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1101, 2021

‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’: What Welcome for Unaccompanied Young Migrants and Refugees in Britain?

By Louisa Brain|January 11, 2021|Uncategorized|0 comments

By Jennifer Allsopp and Elaine Chase We start a chapter of our new book, Youth Migration and the Politics of Wellbeing with an anecdote. It is from a walk taken along a section of England’s stunning coastline during one of our team residential trips to Cornwall with a group of young refugees. A conversation sprung up between two of our team, one from Albania and one from Afghanistan. Offshore was

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2906, 2020

“Little Bird” Lockdown Video – Produced by Seenaryo

By Heleen Tummers|June 29, 2020|Uncategorized|4 comments

Seenaryo is a leading regional specialist, working in Jordan and Lebanon, in performing arts interventions and participatory education with refugees and marginalised communities. Their mission is to enable all people in the Arab region to think critically, collaborate, and become resilient as individuals and in their communities. Normally, Seenaryo hosts 3 different theatre programmes (one for children, one for youth and one for women) and 5 children’s choirs in Lebanon

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1506, 2020

Refugee Week 2020: June 15-21

By Heleen Tummers|June 15, 2020|Uncategorized|0 comments

This week, from Monday 15 to Sunday 21 June 2020, it is UK Refugee Week. Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. The project was founded in 1998, is coordinated by Counterpoints Arts but supported by many partners. The week-long festival returns every year around World Refugee Day, on June 20. Refugee Week is an ‘umbrella festival’ consisting of artistic, cultural, educational events

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2605, 2020

Working with IOM as a health and data consultant in response and preparedness for COVID-19 in Tanzania

By Heleen Tummers|May 26, 2020|Uncategorized|2 comments

By Blick Nuwe Image 1. Discussion with a security personnel on one unofficial PoE in Kigoma Region As a data management consultant in the field, it is both challenging and fascinating to work in emergencies. At the start of March 2020, I started to work as a health and data consultant with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Tanzania. My main terms of reference include: working with the mission’s Program Coordinator

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1905, 2020

Greece: Locals “stay at home” while migrants “stay invisible” – part III

By Heleen Tummers|May 19, 2020|Uncategorized|0 comments

Yannis Dirakis works in Vathi Camp on the Greek Island of Samos. He writes, in 3 parts, on the impact of Covid-19 on the already fragile refugee situation in his country. In Part I and Part II, he wrote about the situation before the Covid-19 outbreak and the refugee protection and Greek response after the outbreak. In this final part, he discusses the further discrimination of migrants in Covid-19 response

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0705, 2020

Greece: Locals “stay at home” while migrants “stay invisible” – part II

By Heleen Tummers|May 7, 2020|Uncategorized|0 comments

Yannis Dirakis works in Vathi Camp on the Greek Island of Samos. He writes, in 3 parts, on the impact of Covid-19 on the already fragile refugee situation in his country. In Part I, accessible here, he wrote about the already worrying refugee situation in Greece before the Covid-19 outbreak. In Part II, he discusses the lack of protection and the Greek approach to Covid-19 in the camps. Disclaimer: all the

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3004, 2020

Greece: Locals “stay at home” while migrants “stay invisible” – part I

By Heleen Tummers|April 30, 2020|Uncategorized|0 comments

Blog series by Yannis Dirakis. Yannis works in Vathi Camp on the Greek Island of Samos and writes, in 3 parts, on the impact of Covid-19 on the already fragile refugee situation in his country. Part I – Covid-19 and the current situation in Greece Across the globe, there is evidence that the most prominent victims of the coronavirus pandemic are the economically weakest; such as those excluded from or with

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