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Migration Matters Festival

Migration Matters Festival is back for 2023, the biggest UK festival of its kind, in its 8th year of celebrating sanctuary in the Steel City. It runs from 16th to 24th June to coincide with Refugee Week, which this year has the theme of compassion. There’s a huge and delightful line-up including over 60 performances, exhibitions, films, walks, food, music, dance…
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Imagining a Child-Centred Migration Law

The Council Room, Firth Court, Western Bank S10 2TN
UK migration law treats children as ‘appendages and possession of others’ and focuses on adult migrants. Governments deport those migrants that it deems ‘illegal’ or those who are just unwanted. The children of migrants are deeply affected by the decision of governments to deport adult family members, yet when children’s rights are considered at all, it is as a means…
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