For people arriving in Britain,creating a familiar space is the first step to settling in. Kieran Yates visits people from Bangladesh, Iran, and Syria and elsewhere,to hear how they are making themselves at home in this unfamiliar countryThis year, the notion of home has been challenged. It has felt increasingly unstable for many immigrants who have settled here, and particularly those who escaped conflict,only to face the fallout of Brexit Britain, or witness the nightmarish Grenfell Tower fire on news reports across the country. Home, and how it plays into the immigrant experience,has never felt more precious and more insecure.
Home for everyone – but particularly people of colour is a political issue. Communities who might never before have felt as if they had a stake in society are learning how to set up something familiar in an unfamiliar site, and how to create space for themselves in a country that doesn’t always say it has space for us: learning how to execute a site feel like a home.
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Source: guardian.co.uk