All posts in: "Life after detention"
- Waiting for light
A seasonal reflection from our Life After Detention group At Christmas … I celebrate that I am free – I spent Christmas and my birthday…
- Detention Dialogues at the Glad Cafe
In this blog, SDV director Kate Alexander reports on our Refugee Festival Scotland event on 19 June at the Glad Cafe A darkened room, two…
- Dungavel stays open . . . but there are alternatives
We learned on Friday 3 February that the Home Office would not be appealing Renfrewshire Council’s refusal of planning permission for its proposed Short Term…
- Imprints
Our Life After Detention group went out with a camera, to find the alphabet in the street. Gry wrote the words. Imprints: on pavements, on…
- Edinburgh on fire
In this post, Quincy reflects on the day our Life After Detention group spent at the Edinburgh Book Festival That day, Edinburgh was on fire!…
- Booked
SDV volunteer coordinator, Shirley Gillan, and members of the Life After Detention Group share some thoughts and pictures from a recent trip to the Edinburgh…
- Drowning in Limbo
In this new post we share a poem from another member of our Life After Detention group, Gry Turin, who like most people who’ve been…
- Missing
Over three quarters of people leaving Dungavel are released back into the community. SDV’s Life After Detention project works with some of them to enable…
- The immovable chair
SDV volunteer coordinator, Shirley Gillan, blogs about the experience of Ernest who was bailed after being detained in Dungavel Being held in detention shrinks a person’s…
- Life after immigration detention as “detention without walls”
In this blog, SDV volunteer and MRes student, Bridget Holtom, reflects on a collaborative research project recently undertaken by SDV with people released on bail…