Category: Guest post
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Four Parts of a Folding Screen: Directors’ Note
Four Parts of a Folding Screen is part of the GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series 2019/2020. The screening takes place on 22 January 2020, from 6pm at CCA Glasgow followed by a conversation with the filmmakers. Directors’ Note: Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin The starting point for our film, Four Parts of a Folding Screen, was a…
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Ready-made Tribute to Victims Cannot Replace Deep-seated Exchange of Looks
Article written by Elsa Gomis. One might set the beginning of the so-called migrant ‘crisis’ in the Mediterranean to October 3, 2013 when a boat carrying more than 360 people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana sank off the coast of Lampedusa island. The crisis reached a peak in the summer of 2015 with massive arrivals…
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The Art of Displacement: Understanding Refugees’ Connection to Place Through the Works They Create
This guest blog post is written by Elizabeth Hampson, an MSc Comparative Public Policy student from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a visiting researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University in Johannesburg and below she shares an edited extract from her BA thesis. Humans are naturally place-oriented; we create…
Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) 