Event Details
'North Belfast Friendship Club 2019', Asylum seekers facilitated by Roberta Bacic. (Photo: Martin Melaugh) |
| Workshop: | Creating Communities of Solidarity |
| Description: | Proposal:
The organisation of a workshop with neurodivergent young people (16-25 years old) from Pinc College, to raise awareness of the disappearance of migrant children. The event aims to raise awareness of the different types of violence migrant children are vulnerable to and to create effective communities in solidarity.
Justification:
Since July 2021, 4,600 separated children seeking refuge in the UK have been housed in government-run hotels. There have been 440 incidents of children going missing. Two hundred children have disappeared and have never been found. In January 2023, a minister admitted that two hundred asylum-seeking children who were placed in hotels run by the Home Office have gone missing. There are six Home Office hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeker children, including one in Brighton. This project aims to create awareness of the disappearance of unaccompanied migrant children in the UK and to create a net of solidarity.
The talk about the issue of disappearance of migrants and the presentation of Conflict Textiles project will be followed by a workshop led by Fiona Smith. In the workshop participants will be invited to reflect on the issue of migration throughout the crafting of dolls and figurines in paper. The activity involves awakening of sensitivities around issues of care and ethics of humanity and the idea of each of us being part of a community of solidarity. |
| Commissioned by: | Dr Sabrina Villenave, Department of Politics, University of Manchester |
| Date(s): | 5th July 2024 - 5th July 2024 |
| Venue: | The Manchester Museum
University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL |
| Curator: | Sabrina Villenave and Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Sabrina Villenave and Fiona Smith |
| Outcome: | |
