We often hear the famous political rhetoric that the UK has a “proud history” of welcoming refugees and those seeking protection from persecution. It is a repetitive mantra at the…
Jack PeleleJuly 19, 2021
Yaghoub, a father and husband from Sudan, arrived in the UK with his three children and wife in September of 2017 from Egypt through the Gateway Protection Programme. Almost four years on, he tells us how resettlement saved…
YaghoubJuly 15, 2021
My name is Aissata. I’m a member of RAS Voice, an ‘Expert-by-Experience’ group of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. I have been asked…
AissataApril 9, 2021
Members of Parliament debated the right to work for me and other people claiming asylum on Wednesday 18 November. Speaking for the Government, Home Office…
AnjuNovember 20, 2020
As tough as things have been for all of us over the last months, people seeking asylum are having an especially rough time. I went…
Teem KhanSeptember 24, 2020
£37 a week. I remember myself calculating our shopping’s cost, so we don’t have to feel embarrassed at the tills. We had already had that…
Refugee ActionJune 2, 2020
Mariyan is a lone mother fighting for her rights. She ended up in the UK three years ago, in a desperate search for safety after…
Refugee ActionMarch 12, 2020
Bruno went through unimaginable suffering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a result of his activism. “In 2006, I was a businessman…
Refugee ActionNovember 30, 2019
Refugee Voices
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Abdi
Listen to Abdi’s story, in his own words, in our podcast. Nineteen-year-old Abdi would be spending tonight in sub-zero temperatures on the streets, as he…
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The Addy family
Najah and Mahmoud are Syrian refugees. War has divided their family many times. “When the war started my husband said you must take our daughters…