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The Gateway mentorship scheme

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:23:41 GMT

The Gateway mentorship scheme aims to empower and integrate refugees and asylum seekers into the local community.

Apply to the mentorship scheme by 13/11/16! Information session in room B 201, 1-2pm, 2/11/16.

Please refer to the attached poster for more details.

Lacuna Magazine - Call for Submissions on Environmental Migration

Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:07:53 GMT

Submissions are now open on the theme of environmental migration.

Migration is increasingly being driven by environmental issues, and climate change is set to create mass migration of hundreds of millions in the decades to come. We must tell the stories of ‘environmental migrants’ so that their need to move is better understood in the countries receiving them, and so that we increase our resolve to reduce greenhouse emissions so more people can remain in their own communities.

All forms of writing and visual art will be considered: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, animation and photography. You may wish to investigate a particular issue, to provide commentary, reportage or expert analysis. Or you may wish to review a book, a film, a piece of music, art or theatre connected to migration. For more information, read our guidelines for submissions.

Interested? Get in touch with Lacuna magazine to discuss your pitch at hello@lacuna.org.uk. Final deadline for submissions on this theme: 30th November 2016.

Lacuna magazine: Call for Submissions on the Western Balkans and its diaspora

Sun, 24 Jul 2016 11:33:05 GMT

Lacuna magazine is now inviting submissions on all issues that relate to human rights and social justice in the Western Balkans and its diaspora, to be published in late 2016. To discuss your pitch and submit your draft, get in touch with the Lacuna editors at hello@lacuna.org.uk (first deadline: 31st August 2016).

Click here for the full call and help us disseminate widely!

NEW Lacuna edition on Migration in Europe

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:13:56 GMT

Today, Lacuna publishes a thought-provoking selection of migrant experiences across Europe, with exclusive features from Greece, Germany and the UK.

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Yesterday, the European Commission published yet another version of its Common European Asylum System, detailing ‘fair and efficient’ procedure to ensure the rights of asylum seekers are protected in every EU country they set foot in. That good intentions are too rarely followed through is perhaps the common theme in refugee and migration policy in European countries today.

In an exclusive report Dario Sabaghi shares stories from the borders of northern Greece where tens of thousands refugees waited for Macedonia to open its borders, so they could travel to northern Europe. He witnessed the final days of the Idomeni camp before the Greek government ordered its evacuation back in May.

What happens once refugees finally reach their desired destination? Kim Harrisberg reports from Germany, the only European country to say ‘refugees welcome’, where she finds shadows of the country’s past influencing policy towards the new arrivals.

Here in the UK, Rebecca Omonira reports on a specific aspect of migration policy and how it affects foreign national women fleeing domestic violence. A timely piece with Theresa May newly appointed prime minister and responsible for managing Brexit.