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In search of a safe place – Refugee Week in Edinburgh

In search of a safe place – Refugee Week in Edinburgh

By fay.young on June 9, 2010

What if we shut our doors to all the people traumatised by wars and persecution… would we live in a stable economy once we had selected our choice citizens?
A thought-provoking question is posed by Joyce Juma Phiri on a flyer advertising Edinburgh events during Refugee Week from 13-19 June.  With luck the events will provoke [...]

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Welcoming news – the cinema club starts again

Welcoming news – the cinema club starts again

By fay.young on November 12, 2009

Great news in from the west.  That’s the west of Edinburgh, where the Welcoming centre runs a terrific programme of events bringing together local communities with refugees and asylum seekers – sharing ideas and learning together through art, film, music, discussion and food.   The cinema club starts again next week with an exciting list of [...]

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Long Way from Home

By fay.young on June 29, 2009

Imagine you are a refugee trying to make a new life in Edinburgh. Better still, take a new look at the city with people who really are refugees.  The film ‘Long Way From Home’ does just that and it is showing at Red Eye film club in Pilmeny Youth Centre at 7.30pm on Friday 3 [...]

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