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Memories of leaving home

Sead, Alice, Gulwali, Annie, and Aleksanda all had to leave their homes at different moments over the past 100 years. Here they talk about why they left their homes.

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Remembering Home

Remembering Home is an artwork by Grace Schwindt on display in Refugees: Forced to Flee.

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Memories of home

Sead, Alice, Gulwali, Annie, and Aleksanda all had to leave their homes at different moments over the past 100 years. Here they talk about their memories of home. 

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Contemporary conflict

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat

What is it like to attempt to travel across the Mediterranean Sea by boat? What do those who do so face on their journeys?

Researchers for the Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat project interviewed 271 people, most of whom had already crossed the Mediterranean by boat, 

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Memories of the journey

Sead, Alice, Gulwali, Annie, and Aleksanda all had to leave their homes at different moments over the past 100 years. Here, they talk about their memories of some of the journeys they were forced to make.

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Ethnic Cleansing

At the height of the war in Bosnia paramilitary groups forced people from opposing ethnic groups to leave their homes, often making them pay large sums or hand over all their property before they were driven out.

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Contemporary conflict

Refugee Hosts

More than five million refugees from the Syria Conflict have sought refuge in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. The Refugee Hosts project explores local responses to displacement in the Middle East, considering the experiences of both refugees from Syria and the communities which host them.

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Displaced Persons in 1945

Footage of displaced persons being received at the 2nd Army Displaced Persons Centre at "The Winkelhaus" barracks, Osnabrück, Germany April 1945. 

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First World War

Reckoning with Refugeedom

Reckoning with Refugeedom is an ongoing project conducted by the University of Manchester.

The project aims to put refugees more firmly and centrally into modern history by accessing the perspectives of refugees from different backgrounds, through petitions and letters to those in positions of authority, but also personal correspondence and other source material.

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UNTV Interviews

Once the fighting is over and a place has been deemed safe, can people return home? If so, do they even want to?

In these UNTV films two women from Bosnia-Herzegovina have differing thoughts. Draga explains why she does not want to return to Mostar, and Najim Jujic explains why she can’t imagine not returning to her home in Jajce.

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First World War

Tracing the Belgian Refugees

The largest influx of refugees in British history happened during the First World War – 250,000 Belgians fled to Britain during the conflict. But what became of those who made the journey? Researchers have worked to uncover the stories of these people and their experiences.

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A different home

Sead, Alice, Gulwali, Annie, and Aleksanda all had to leave their homes at different moments over the past 100 years.

Here they talk about their memories of settling in a new community.

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Afghanistan

Dear Habib

Habib is an Afghan refugee who came to the UK as an unaccompanied child asylum seeker. This animation explores his journey, his separation from his family and how he has built a new community in the Midlands.

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Translating Asylum

When people are displaced by conflict, being able to communicate isn’t always straightforward. Translating Asylum is an ongoing research project that aims to investigate the different approaches to providing translation and interpretation services.