Refugee Tales

Description

Refugee Tales is an outreach project of the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group. Since 2015 it has organised a large-scale walk each summer in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and people held in UK immigration detention. Taking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as a model, the project brings together established writers and people with lived experience of detention to share tales at evening events of readings, music and hospitality; the tales have been published in five volumes by Comma Press. Through the sharing of stories the project gathers and communicates experiences of migration and seeks to show the realities of indefinite detention, creating a space in which the language of welcome prevails. It runs a self-advocacy project through which people with lived experience share their tales with parliamentarians and others of influence, and conducted a Walking Inquiry into Immigration Detention (findings published July 2022) using its own participatory methodology, inviting contributions including testimony, art, letters, video and poetry. It calls for an end to indefinite immigration detention in the UK.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2015

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Partner Universities

University of Kent

Additional Partnerships

[HOST] Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG)