The writer and critic, Professor David Herd (University of Kent), participated in "Telling Encounters," an event at the University of Innsbruck devoted to the theme of forced migration. In his lecture titled "Refugee Tales and the Politics of Welcome: Walking Against the Expulsive Environment," he discussed immigration detention as a measure of migration control used in no other European country except the UK.
He outlined the rationale underlying Refugee Tales (www.refugeetales.org/), an internationally acclaimed initiative against the detention of asylum seekers involving high-profile writers, aid-workers, volunteers, and refugees.
In an interview with FREIRAD (to be aired on 23 May), he addressed the danger of immigration policies contravening human rights and the need for international collaborations to work towards a more constructive way of negotiating the forced displacement than is currently prevalent. His stay in Innsbruck served also to plan precisely such a collaboration between Refugee Tales and ARENA (Archive of REfugee NArratives), a project developed by Professor Helga Ramsey-Kurz at the Department of English of the University of Innsbruck.
As a part of this collaboration, two public 'Walks in Solidarity with Refugees' will take place simultaneously in Kent and Tirol on 17 June (for more information, please visit https://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/arena/news-events/).
He outlined the rationale underlying Refugee Tales (www.refugeetales.org/), an internationally acclaimed initiative against the detention of asylum seekers involving high-profile writers, aid-workers, volunteers, and refugees.
In an interview with FREIRAD (to be aired on 23 May), he addressed the danger of immigration policies contravening human rights and the need for international collaborations to work towards a more constructive way of negotiating the forced displacement than is currently prevalent. His stay in Innsbruck served also to plan precisely such a collaboration between Refugee Tales and ARENA (Archive of REfugee NArratives), a project developed by Professor Helga Ramsey-Kurz at the Department of English of the University of Innsbruck.
As a part of this collaboration, two public 'Walks in Solidarity with Refugees' will take place simultaneously in Kent and Tirol on 17 June (for more information, please visit https://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/arena/news-events/).
