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Can my DNA tell you my nationality?

The UK Border Agency has been looking into using DNA testing to determine an asylum seeker’s nationality. They are calling this the Human Provenance Project.

Myth-busting begins at home

In an article on the Guardian website recently, Spencer Woodcock, who runs a project supporting older people to live independently, extolled the refugees who volunteer...

Edinburgh Fringe: All the Queen’s Children

All the Queen’s Children is a play about four young refugees who arrive in the UK alone and then go missing from care. It has...

Long journey to Scotland

"We thought Glasgow was a city with crimes, windy, too cold with the worst weather in the UK. That’s the information we had been told...

Who is at the party?

“I find it ... absolutely appropriate that leading up to Refugee Week I should be nurtured in such a way by such a gorgeous Sri...