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
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
Mansoor was in the final year of his degree in the UK, when he began receiving threats from people in his home-country of Libya. He…
Refugee ActionJuly 9, 2018
Sitting in a café in Manchester’s busy district of Rusholme, Ahmad reminisces over the life he once shared with his wife in Syria before the…
Refugee ActionMay 16, 2018
After waiting two and a half years for a decision on his asylum claim, Ehsan was finally given refugee status at the end of last…
Refugee ActionMay 16, 2018
