People seeking asylum, racism and the state

dublin | racism & migration related issues | event notice Friday April 13, 2012 23:42 by Laurence Cox - MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism

Experiences of effective resistance from the UK

Public talk with Rhetta Moran of RAPAR (Manchester)

Public talk, Tuesday 24th April, 7.30
TCD, Aras an Phiarsaigh (Pearse House) Room 0.09
Directions here: http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php?q=Aras%20an%20Phiarsaigh

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

For further information contact: Laurence Cox laurence.cox@nuim.ie or David Landy dlandy@tcd.ie 085 7121058