We are happy to announce that today Carola Vasileiadi has started working as a PhD candidate on the URBIMM project in Rotterdam and Thessaloniki. Carola was a former research assistant in our HERA project on Refugee Youth and Public Space and contributed to the organisation of the final HERA conference in Amsterdam.  Carola is interested…

We are happy to announce that today Johanna Bastian, former research assistant in our HERA project on Refugee Youth and Public Space, starts her doctoral research at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). Johanna will be working on the LYMAS project (Life Strategies of Young Migrants in Ageing Societies) led by Dr. Edward…

Our education toolkit ‘Local Migration Histories – Global Connections’ is now available for access. The education toolkit is based on the research conducted with young refugees and asylum seekers in the four European cities of Brussels, Amsterdam, Leipzig and Newcastle upon Tyne, as part of our HERA research. This teaching guide provides exercises and materials…

Carola Vasileiadi, research assistant in our HERA project, has been nominated for the Migration and Societal Change Master Thesis Award with her brilliant thesis “We are not documents but human beings”: The presentation of a counter-narrative on undocumented migration through the art practices of We Sell Reality” (click here to view the thesis or here…

Yes, the aftermovie of our HERA Final Conference 2022 is finally out! Although it were just two days, there are so many good memories and it is such a pleasure to being able to relive them again. See it for yourself! Many thanks to Common Frames (Hemmo and Issa) and the Talent Team (Kais, Azobi…

The window-exhibition “(Not) My City – Scopes and Limitations of Urban Spaces” which was first presented in the city of Leipzig in October 2021 aimed to map out the spectrum of different experiences while arriving as a newcomer in the city of Leipzig. Based on interviews conducted by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Regional…

The 2nd and 3rd of June marked the ending of our HERA research project on refugee youth, public space and artistic practice. It was two days of discussing different forms of global displacement and local emplacement, the meanings of different types of encounters in cities, the role of public and semi public space in processes…

What a timely, joyful and moving performance of HERE by curious monkey at Northern Stage, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. It was great to see the complicated relationships of migrants with home, place and belonging communicated in such a powerful way. HERE compellingly illustrates the challenges and hardships refugees and asylum seekers experience upon arrival, but also shows how…

“Initiatives that provide solidarity, support and care, such as charity, community, arts and volunteer groups, are of particular importance for young refugees. They provide practical support, helping with the navigation of a new city and the complexities of asylum systems. They also provide a space for participation and creativity, where young refugees enact belonging through…

Four seasons, four people, from four corners of the world collide. The strange city folds and unfolds around them, a story that opens up like a book to get lost in. Set against the backdrop of Byker this powerful new play, HERE, by Lindsay Rodden is about finding sanctuary in the unlikeliest of places. About dancing…