December 3, 2017 - Immigration, Short Stories

Asylum Seeker Dispersal: Rochdale

Supermoon over the streets of Rochdale.

This Metropolitan Borough of Manchester has a population of approximately 211,000 people including over 1,000 dispersed people seeking asylum. Questions are being asked as to how to honour and support those escaping persecution + death, whilst acknowledging communities that feel disenfranchised across the U.K.