A selection of useful links to relevant reports, good practice resources, arts, and more by external friends and partners
Alternative maps
- The Decolonial Atlas - collection of maps which help us to challenge our relationships with the land, people, and state, based on the principle that cartography is not as objective as we are made to believe.
- Map of Stories - interactive map of Scotland produced by Scottish arts collective Transgressive North. The map collects 172 videos of oral stories, some arising from Scotland's indigenous languages and some coming from migrant and mixed-heritage traditions, spanning from the ancient to the contemporary.
- Native Land Digital - Indigenous-led mapping service that can help people learn about the indigenous languages of the places where they are currently living.
Books and collections
- Yahia Lababidi, Palestine Wail: Poems (2024). Yahia Lababidi, an Arab-American writer of Palestinian background, has crafted a poignant collection which serves as a heartfelt tribute to the Palestinian people, their struggles, and their resilience in the face of an ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing. The collection, described as a love letter to Gaza, draws inspiration from the rich literary tradition of Palestinian resistance literature. Lababidi, known for his critically-acclaimed books of aphorisms, essays, and poetry, brings his unique voice to this personal, political and spiritual work.
Good practice
- Mia Gubbay and Soizig Carey, Where We Meet: A good practice resource for arts organisations and artists with lived experience of displacement (2024) - working document commissioned by Cross Borders, a Scottish Refugee Council project, responding to the potential for artists, creative practitioners and arts organisations to co-create inclusive spaces for healing and belonging
- Teresa Piacentini, A Manifesto for Change: On the ethics and practice of teaching and researching migration in the political now! (2022) - output from workshop in 2018 that brought together a collective of academics, activists and practitioners from third sector and civil society organisations and students working in the area of migration or studying migration
- Lauren E. Cagle et. al, Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors (2021) - guidance on anti-racist professional practices for editors, reviewers, and authors involved in academic reviewing, written by a coalition of scholars in technical communication and rhetoric
Languages
- An Dream Dearg - activist group founded in 2017 to organise for Irish language rights in Northern Ireland. Their website contains many useful resources including a Language Rights handbook and tools for people living in Northern Ireland to email political leaders, make submissions to consultations, and more.
- Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia - non-profit organisation established in 2000 to aid in the efforts of the Ojibwe language revitalisation movement through creating and distributing high-quality indigenous language materials.
- We Are Tiger Dictionary - lexicon created by secondary aged pupils in a series of writing workshops exploring the language we use to express our emotions and how writing can help our mental health (which our own Tawona Sitholé was involved in facilitating).
Migration in the arts and media
- Media - ZAM Magazine, a creative platform centred in Europe for African artists, writers and free thinkers. ZAM brings their work to a wider audience in the Netherlands, Europe, Africa and the world.
- Film - The Elephant & The Room (2024), dir. by Anas Qadamani. Graduation film providing the historical context and framing of elephants as migrants within the political discourse. Content warning: this film contains real footage that includes scenes of death, violence against humans and other creatures, and instances of animals in distress.
- Film - ‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right, Claire Armistead interview with Agnieszka Holland on Green Border (2024) for The Guardian. In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called 'green border' between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are caught in a geopolitical crisis.
- Film - The Old Oak (2023), dir. by Ken Loach. A pub owner in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his establishment. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in empty houses within the community.
- Film - Surviving Translation (2023), dir. by Ling Lee and co-created with and based on original research by Charlotte Bosseaux. Documetary taking an in-depth look at the ethics of translation, focusing specifically on the traumatic experiences of female migrants.
- Film - Nezouh (2022), dir. by Soudade Kaadan. Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.
Reports, consultations and briefings
- A Multi-Country Report: Survival Strategies and Health Repercussions in Forced Displacement (Advanced Draft) (20 Jun 2024) - report by Liminality Research Consortium summarising the findings of an extensive study on transactional sex as a survival strategy in forced displacement and its implications for sexual and reproductive health and mental health
- UNHCR Analysis of the Legality and Appropriateness of the Transfer of Asylum-Seekers under the UK-Rwanda arrangement: an update (15 Jan 2024) - update on initial analysis taking into account developments including the 2023 Illegal Migration Act, the judgment of the UK Supreme Court in R (AAA & others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, the signature of the UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Treaty on 5 December 2023, and the publication of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill on 6 December 2023
- Briefing for the Asylum inquiry ran by the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice committee on the Illegal Migration Bill and what Scotland must do now (15 May 2023) - briefing by Scottish Refugee Council for the Scottish Government's Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice committee calling for the First Minister to institute a radical cross-government policy to protect vulnerable people (namely refugees and trafficking survivors) from severe harms caused by the UK Government's Illegal Migration Bill.
- UNHCR Analysis of the Legality and Appropriateness of the Transfer of Asylum-Seekers under the UK-Rwanda arrangement (8 Jun 2022) - analysis by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) concluding that the UK-Rwanda arrangement breaches international refugee law
Resources for refugees and asylum seekers
- Far Right Activity - Advice for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (August 2024) - guidance for people concerned about far-right violence targeting people in temporary asylum accommodation or with refugee status living in the UK, produced by Asylum Matters, Praxis and Refugee Action.
- Refugee Resource Centre list of local refugee support groups in the UK
UNESCO resources
- UNESCO's action in the Gaza Strip / Palestine - collection of UNESCO press releases relating to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and information on the action they are taking
- In the face of war, UNESCO's action in Ukraine - information on UNESCO's actions in Ukraine
- UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage - Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
- UNESCO Refugees tag - articles, stories, press releases, case studies and more relating to refugees