This makes it all the more interesting that these camps are not typically memorialised. There was one camp that ultimately was turned into an old age home for Polish refugees because it was open for so long and it proved too complicated to resettle the elderly people within it.
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The Ugandan Asian camps were all only open from , a relatively short period of time. When speaking with those that ran these camps, they often made them sound like success stories about speedy resettlement.
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But when talking to people who lived there I got a clearer sense of the traumas caused by the abrupt closure of the camps. Particularly through family separation. Many would have benefitted from a more structured resettlement process over time. There is no dedicated government department for refugees in Britain. During different refugee crises we see multiple departments get involved to deal with each particular instance — the Home Office, the National Assistance Board, the Colonial Office even. Part of those assignments of responsibility depends how each refugee group is conceived of and understood in relation to Britain and poor Britons in particular.
This is something you see a lot of thought and hand wringing given to, about whether analogies can be drawn between poor people and refugees. Are there fundamental similarities between them?
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Will they compete with each other for resources and be a threat to each other? Does it make sense to conceive of them all as people in need of the states help? Different solutions were posed at different moments in time but they were never satisfactorily resolved.
Their own displacement and homelessness leads many of them to seek shelter in refugee camps. So the camps were places where some Britons felt they could and should seek help. Those connections became more strained in the s and s as it was more difficult for Britons to think of themselves as undergoing an experience like that and more difficult for the state to think of them in that way too.
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This is often to the detriment of the rights of refugees. One of the interesting aspects of this history is that many of the refugees had British passports. You mention people volunteering at the camps, were there many instances of solidarity from the local population? It was very common.
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There were a lot of different types of people who came to work in the camps. Some were ex-colonial civil servants who tended to be more politically conservative and see their work with refugees as an outgrowth of their earlier imperial service. There were a lot of contrasting visions even amongst Britons about what the camps should be like, what the future for the refugees should hold, and what rights refugees should have.
In all of the camps I looked at there were efforts to organise by refugees and efforts to participate in political life. The myth of a unique, democratic and proto-European Greek culture is demonstrably false, Lendering argues, raising an extremely important point of discussion. In this pleasantly written, against-thegrain book, Lendering undermines many assumptions, replacing them with a story that is much more absorbing, rich and multi-facetted. Pliny in Bithynia , The Edges of the World: Oosterse wortels van de westerse cultuur Jona Lendering Forgotten Heritage Oosterse wortels van de westerse cultuur.
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Eastern roots of Western culture. Long overdue reconsideration of nineteenth-century Greek-centred assumptions in higher education A strongly opinionated contribution to contemporary debates about the place of the humanities in our universities. Having a camera with me allows me to prolong that thrill long after the building is gone.
I consider experiencing these places to be a great privilege. From the point of view of a photographer there is a total lack of distraction in the stillness of a derelict building; the sound and movement associated with people or workers has been removed, for me this makes them far more sensory than when they are occupied. Your mind can easily focus on what is around you and takes in so much more. Capturing this character and stillness comes across well in the photos and is something my audience tell me they love about the work.
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