New Becoming Adult publication freshly printed! Eds. Meloni, F., Chase, E., Haile, S. 2017. Walking a Tightrope: Migrant Young People, Transitions and Futures. London: University College London. (Photographic Book with photographs and texts produced by migrant young people) This book … Continue reading Walking a Tightrope: Migrant Young People, Transitions and Futures
Read the first blog post of the Wellwishers blog, created by some young researchers of the Becoming Adult Project Displacement through Digital Art, by Ergest Zejnelaj The Wellwishers blog is formed by a group of young and inspired individuals … Continue reading Displacement through Digital Art, by Ergest Zejnelaj
Kotaiba was 17 years old when he left a war zone, crossed Europe and the Mediterranean and tried to jump on to a train in Calais. In 2016 he was allowed to join his family in London. BBC followed him … Continue reading A year in the life of a Syrian teenager in London
From being asked whether you arrived in the UK on a lorry, or whether you thought about going somewhere else, to the questions about what it’s like to be… questioned. If you’re a refugee, you’ll be well-versed in answering these … Continue reading Things not to say to a refugee
My Life in Patras is based on a creative methods project with Afghan unaccompanied children in Patras in 2012. The film employs drawings made by young people; photographs taken by them with disposable cameras; and personal accounts. In 2013, it won the Gülen … Continue reading My Life in Patras: Unaccompanied children in Greece
Immigrants – Poem by Ndue Perlala Original version in Albanian here (Translation by Migena Lala) As swallows break the sky Cross seas and mountain ranges Migrants, migratory birds For a better life without trouble As swallows leave their nest in another country … Continue reading Immigrants, Emigrantet: A poem
It is now possible to watch the movie Leave to Remain on BBCiPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05xxj3y/leave-to-remain About the movie: Based on real-life stories, Leave to Remain is a coming of age drama that depicts a world hidden from view. Omar, a charismatic Afghan teenager, is at … Continue reading Leave to remain: A movie about an Afghan boy and his precarious transitions
The court case about returns of failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan was dismissed last week, with a sad ending. The court ruled that failed asylum-seekers, including former unaccompanied minors, are to be sent back to Afghanistan, amid concerns the country was too dangerous. In … Continue reading Safe enough? Durable solutions beyond deportations
By Rachel Humphris The IOM / UNICEF data briefing on Migration of Children to Europe begins with the statistic that ‘more than one in five refugees and migrants arriving by sea in Europe in 2015 is a child’[1]. The briefing, … Continue reading The numbers game: migration of children to Europe
By Rachel Humphris The UK Government announced on 28th January 2016 that they will ‘lead a new initiative to resettle unaccompanied children from conflict regions’ [1]. After mounting pressure (see earlier post Happy New Year?), the Prime Minister, David Cameron, … Continue reading Against all odds: resettled separated children and the Immigration Bill
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