People seeking asylum, racism and the state:
Experiences of effective resistance from the UK
Dr Rhetta Moran, RAPAR (Refugees and Asylum Seekers Participatory Action Research), Manchester
Public talk, Tuesday 24th April, 7.30
TCD, Aras an Phiarsaigh (Pearse House) Room 0.09
Directions here
Grounded in over 10 years of participatory action research as - and with - people seeking asylum, Rhetta will offer an overview of the theoretical framework that underpins RAPAR (www.rapar.org.uk), a human rights organisation based in the city centre of Manchester and extending throughout the UK and into Ireland. Some examples will follow that demonstrate how people who have been failed by the State via the asylum system have gone on to resist through RAPAR. By working collectively to stop their own persecution and secure their safety, these cases model ways of exposing and transforming actions, fashioned by the State, that are as dangerous as they are inherently racist. Another world is possible...
The event is free and all are welcome.
Co-hosted by:
MPhil In Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Department Of Sociology, Trinity College
Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/sociology/ethnicracialstudies/ and
NUIM MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism http://ceesa-ma.blogspot.com
NUIM MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism http://ceesa-ma.blogspot.com
For
further information contact: Laurence Cox or David Landy 085 7121058
