By Lich Gatkoi Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya is one of Africa’s largest refugee settlements, home to over 300,000 people fleeing conflict and persecution. Amid the hardship, many refugees are working hard to rebuild… Read More »Trapped Potential: Refugee Traders Strive for Dignity and Self-Reliance
By Chukulisa Molu Adi The process of getting a travel document is lengthy, with no guarantees. Refugees in Northern Kenya are left feeling trapped by a broken system. I open my eyes as the sunlight… Read More »Life on hold is taking a mental toll on Kakuma’s refugees
As Covid-19 continues to spread, the voices of the poorest and most marginalised have largely been missing from the mainstream media.
BBC broadcasting journalist Ziad Ghandour was one of millions of people to escape their war-torn homeland in 2015. Ziad was forced to leave his English Literature master’s degree behind in Syria to search for a… Read More »In Conversation: Ziad Ghandour
Higher Education partners from coLAB gathered in London for the first stage of an initiative that seeks to break down some of the integration barriers encountered by refugees in local communities. Working in paid roles… Read More »Tackling integration through collaborative teaching
Photojournalist Sara Furlanetto worked with three participants on the presented video. Asked to answer to the question “What is journalism in the context of your life?”, they wrote a personal text, each sharing personal stories… Read More »The value of journalism
Refugee Journalism Project participants visited the Guardian where they learned about the history of the paper as well as the day-to-day business of the Guardian.
The idea for this project emerged a couple of years ago while I was doing some voluntary media work at the Migrants Resource Centre. We were coming across experienced workers who were having difficulty re-establishing… Read More »Update from the project team
An evening of fun and entertainment with poetry, songs and live performance brought dozens of refugees and migrants as well as staff and volunteers of Migrant Resource Centre and Asylum Aid under one roof in Victoria, London.
This summer, journalist Neil Arun conducted two workshops at the London College of Communications, and shared some of the things he knew with journalists who had arrived in Britain as refugees. They, in turn, demonstrated what they knew – and… Read More »Refugee journalism: Why now?