Asylum-seekers may feel that no one listens, no one hears and no one cares about their stories; but Refugee Tales suggests otherwise
SINCE 2015 Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, a charity, has organised a storytelling walk inspired by “The Canterbury Tales”. The accounts in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem, as narrated by fictional pilgrims walking from London to Canterbury, provided some insight into the customs and injustices of 14th-century English society; Refugee Tales does the same for 21st-century Britain.
Britain is the only European country with no maximum time limit on immigration detention. Individuals are locked up for months, even years, in prison-like conditions. But Refugee Tales has an artistic as well as a political purpose.
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