literary and digital research, translation and activism. @hafanbooks @SASS_community
Wales, United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
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🥁The imprisoned Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak's poem 'What I know of the Sea' will be displayed on the London Underground for 4 weeks... with @CarolineStockf1 credited as translator. 📢📣
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🗣 Opinion: Web3 tech has failed to shift patterns of authority and profit, and need greater scrutiny, and stronger standards and safeguards, writes @margchee.
bit.ly/3ujmgts
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"The business was run more like a feudal court than a modern company". Hope I am not distantly related to that dodgy FTX board member Jonathan Cheesman.
FTX: inside the crypto exchange that ‘accidentally’ lost $8bn on.ft.com/3UPIKOe
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SASS's new short animated film for Refugee Week 2022: "No Friends But the Mountains - Walking in the Shoes of Kurdish Refugees" - youtu.be/_CkrNfPyc-E
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“The evidence of senior Home Office officials…confirm a state body driven by political imperatives to sacrifice welfare…[for] enforcement & administrative convenience that relegates safeguarding of detainees to a virtual footnote… [and] puts cost cutting over safety & care”
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How can we support refugees to rebuild their life in Wales?
Join us at our Workshop & Networking event on Refugee Employment at The Grand Multicultural Hub on Monday 4th April!
REGISTER HERE: eventbrite.co.uk/e/refugee-e…
#employment #Swansea #RefugeesWelcome #NationofSanctuary
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Court of Appeal has dismissed @ukhomeoffice appeal in our test case. Confirmed victims of #trafficking should be granted leave pending resolution of #asylum claims based on re-trafficking. Court criticised delays & urged home office to act. bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ…
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📣 The pilot for our Exhibition will be open to the public at The Grand Multicultural Hub from Monday 22nd - April 7th!!!
Featuring a Workshop on Refugee Employment on April 4th (registration now open, see link below)
Visit our website for updates: swansea.cityofsanctuary.org/…
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We know communities want to play a direct part in welcoming Ukrainian refugees. The new scheme supporting UK householders to host refugees is a positive step, but we have significant concerns (see thread🧵below)...
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Do not miss this event and spread the news! @volcanouk @SwanseaUni_LTI @tomchee @share_tawe @VolcanoFridays @MakingLitTravel @Meggyf @BuchlerAlex @elinhgj @IccwHere
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No Man's Land's first tweet is "To Kyiv," Tom Cheesman's translation of Albert Ostermaier's poem "Nach Kiew," from the Süddeutsche 4 Mar 22: sueddeutsche.de/kultur/alber… Thanks to translator and author! @tomchee #albertostermaier #ukraine #germanliterature
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On #InternationalWomenDay, we honour the solidarity work and social activism that Olga and her friends are doing to support fellow Ukrainians.
Read her new blog here:
cov19chronicles.com/doubly-d…
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A poem for Kyiv, translated from German. It was published 4/3/22: sueddeutsche.de/kultur/alber…
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WOW! Thank you @JaneHutt for this statement on the Nationality & Borders Bill!
NABB "severely undermines our vision of Wales as a Nation of Sanctuary.
We believe many of the provisions in the bill will breach international conventions, violate basic principles of justice" 👏
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Check out this report based on a recent @turinginst workshop about the international research agenda for #digitalidentity. Includes insights from the fascinating panel I moderated on resistance/contestation of ID systems with @HashmiZehra @AzadeAkbari @EHayesdeKalaf @ngozi_nwanta
#TrustworthyID workshop Researching Digital Identity in Crisis laments impact of polarised debates within #humanitarian aid that leave beneficiaries behind.
New blog and full report from @empo11on @emrys_s @KerenWeitzberg @margchee
bit.ly/3sQvUCk
ALT Illustrations by Katie Chapell generated live during The Alan Turing Institute workshop: Researching Digital Identity in Times of Crisis.
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Brilliant opportunity
@swanseaCoS – at Swansea, Wales
Swansea University is proud to announce the Sanctuary Scholarship which is available to people seeking asylum in the UK who wish to access higher education and for whom statutory financial support is unavailable...🎓
swansea.ac.uk/money-campusli…
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More details about the inquiry are available at: tinyurl.com/yrmjza4y
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In this Covid Conversation, Funmi describes her inspiring journey from asylum seeker to Law student with a sanctuary scholarship. She is currently studying at @UWTSD in Wales, UK 🏴
@MarieBGillespie @ahmadalrashid99 @ThanujaH @hazeljnixon @Carlos_Ibarra
youtu.be/-hgFhB2EO0M
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Joseff Williams’ brilliant #SecondHome spotted in @CovertoCoverUK 📚 we love seeing Hafan in the wild! Joseff’s book is available to buy now in store and at hafanbooks.org 📖
