Artists and researchers collaborated with migrant families to address complex, politically and emotionally challenging issues in a nuanced way
In On a Wing and a Prayer, we cross London's Rotherhithe tunnel by foot, mirroring the journey of people like Abdul Haroun – arrested on arrival. Why are some rewarded for making such a journey, others incarcerated?
How can the stories we tell about tragic experiences connect people and create cultures of bearing witness and responsibility rather than encouraging voyeurism or indifference?
“If all the Europeans leave, who work so hard and they pay taxes, how are they going to manage to keep the benefit system in the first place?”
We can learn from the way that migrant mothers make a place for themselves and their children in a society which does not always welcome them.
