Refugee Tales ‘the uk once welcomed refugees now we detain them indefinitely’. read the kamila shamsie article in the guardian. “we will tell it like it is, and we will work towards the better imagined. welcome to this year’s refugee tales.”. Through refugee tales, writers collaborate with asylum seekers, refugees and people in indefinite detention who share their stories. taking chaucer’s great poem of journeying – canterbury tales – as a model, writers tell a series of tales as they walk in solidarity with detainees.
Refugee Tales Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in chaucer’s canterbury tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering. Through a series of deeply moving narratives, herd gives voice to the often silenced stories of refugees and detainees, shedding light on their harrowing journeys and the profound injustices they endure. Presenting their experiences anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims stories in chaucers canterbury tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering. The project comprises collections of tales published in textual editions alongside a politically embodied campaign to call an end to the practice of indefinite detention of asylum seekers in the united kingdom.
Refugee Tales Presenting their experiences anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims stories in chaucers canterbury tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering. The project comprises collections of tales published in textual editions alongside a politically embodied campaign to call an end to the practice of indefinite detention of asylum seekers in the united kingdom. Using the canterbury tales as a framework, the partnership saw the refugee tales project embark on a walk along the north downs way from dover to crawley. along the route, writers retold the experience of refugees and those who work with them, and also, the realities of indefinite detention. In refugee tales iii we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. This essay explores the collaborative process of creating the poem ‘the refugee’s tale’, which was initially read at a live event and subsequently published in the first refugee tales. Modelled on chaucer’s canterbury tales, the refugee tales series sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the uk, find themselves indefinitely detained.
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