The volunteer-led theatre group Actors for Human Rights visited Royal Holloway on Friday 7th June, to perform their piece ‘Asylum Monologues’ to staff and students in the department of Law and Criminology.
The production involved a series of interwoven first-hand accounts of people seeking asylum and navigating the UK’s immigration system read by actors on stage, followed by a facilitated Q&A panel with the actors and our refugee and asylum law expert Dr Maja Grundler.
It was a unique and intimate learning experience for our law students, and an invaluable opportunity to personalize individual asylum seekers stories amidst the increasing political rhetoric of the general election, where bipartisan support for reducing the so-called immigration crisis is foregrounded over any substantive proposals for engaging with and meeting our international legal obligations under the Refugee Convention at a time of paramount need.
