As of 2019, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identified 70.8 million current, forcibly displaced people (“UNHCR,” 2019). Once displaced, these migrants may proactively or retroactively seek refuge by means of a legal asylum case, which at times includes …
There is symbiosis between theatre and belonging. This thesis examines the ways in which a sense of belonging can be more effectively facilitated for adult refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and their families through drama practices rooted in a relational ethic of care. Finding…
Informed by particular theories of migration and of new global migrations as problematic European states, pulled by both exclusionary particularist and inclusionary universalist tensions, have taken increasing measures to restrict access to ‘unwanted’ forced migrants to their te…
This thesis explores how people struggle to make livable lives in the conditions of existence of seeking asylum in the UK. The study is based on ethnographic research, conversations and participant observation, with people seeking asylum in Manchester. Grounding the research in …