This week Lacuna returns to migration against the backdrop of the worsening refugee crisis across Europe.

Focusing on the UK, in The Man in Room Six our writer-in-residence Rebecca Omonira interviews a mentally ill detainee who is seriously disturbed by the death of a fellow detainee. His detention raises important questions about the government’s use of the policy. Detention Without Walls is a short documentary which tells the individual stories of former detainees. In Protesting Detention Keira Koroma meets some of these protestors at an action outside Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre.

Further afield, in Trapped: Eritrean and Sudanese Refugees in Israel Naomi Clugston reports on the Holot detention camp in Israel where the government arbitrarily detains asylum seekers. And in About North Korea Charlotte Bailey interviews playwright Mia Chung about her new play ‘You For Me For You’, which tells the story of two sisters from North Korea, bringing to the life the psychological battles facing migrants fleeing horrific circumstances.

And in our creative section, Clare Lavery challenges the stunted use of language in the mainstream media when it comes to discussing migrants and migration. Her poem Uprooting explores the notion of movement, searching for a home and finding a new voice amid the hate and anger often directed towards migrants and refugees.

Don't miss Lacuna magazine's latest features, which include Adam Weymouth’s 3-part exploration of the ‘rewilding’ debate and the reintroduction of wolves, and Tomaso Clavarino's investigation into the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in Bucharest.

Poetry Workshop

Wednesday 18th November 2015 / Venue - Graduate Space, 4th Floor, Humanities / Time - 2.00 pm

Join us for an inter-active poetry workshop on Freedom of Speech with Laila Sumpton. Laila is a member of the Keats House Poets Forum and she has recently been working on poetry projects related to human rights with the Centre for Human Rights in Practice and Lacuna magazine.

This workshop is part of the Freedom of Speech week coordinated by the Humanities Research Centre. The activities include:

• Talk by Jeremy Wright MP - Friday 6th November - 5.15 pm
• Local Perspectives - Warwick and the World University Service - Monday 16th November - 5.00 pm
• Histories of Freedom of Speech, Ancient and Modern - Tuesday 17th November - 5.00 pm
• Poetry Workshop - Wednesday 18th November - 2.00 pm

For more information and to book your place: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/fos/