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The voices, stories and personal struggles of marginalised communities often go unheard. We want to use our platform to change that!

We are currently putting a pause on accepting stories due to capacity. Thank you for your patience.
As a majority migrant and racialised-led team (including our staff, advisory board, and trustees), we know the importance of lived experience in bringing about the change we want to see. Being a migrant-led, intersectional and collaborative organisation, we also understand the power of personal stories in celebrating identities, defying anti-migrant narratives and building solidarity.
In the spirit of our vision of a world where everyone is free to move, we are inviting migrants (including refugees and people seeking asylum) and migratised communities to share your stories with us about how your migration experience has shaped who you are as a person and how you relate to the world around you. Sharing your stories of resistance, struggle and hope is a really powerful way to increase awareness and understanding about the experiences you have faced, which is a key element of bringing about transformative change.
As a charity embracing anti-oppression, we are defying extractive and exploitative practices when it comes to storytelling. We honour the trust that you put in us when you reach out to share your stories, and this is something we take very seriously. We will strive to bring your story to life in a way that is authentic and as representative of your voice as possible.
Your stories will be shared to our website and social media, and potentially even in the press, research or podcasts. We will compensate you for your time. If you change your mind at any point, even after your story goes public, then please email us, and we will remove it from our website and all our channels (please note: if your story is picked up by the press, this is not something that we would be able to remove). Your story can be as long or as short as you like: do whatever makes you most comfortable! We can also anonymise your story if you wish.
If you would like to share your story with us, please email our Communications Officer, Ana, at [email protected]. It can be about whatever you want, as long as it links to your experience of migration and being a migrant or migratised person.
Share your story: Current opportunities
Our work includes:
- The intersections between migration and disability, gender, queerness, Islamophobia, racism and colonialism (as part of our Who Is Welcome Campaign)
- Experiences with immigration enforcement and the immigration and asylum system (eVisas, sponsorship schemes) (as part of our Hostile Office and Justice for Sponsored Workers Campaigns)
- Envisioning the future (what do safe routes/ what does a world without borders look like for you?) (as part of our Abolition and Decolonisation Campaign)
If you want to speak about something else not covered above, or don’t know where to start, then don’t worry! We want to hear from you, so please do get in touch!
To get involved with our Words Matter campaign, click here.
We have also included a list of specific stories we are looking for below.
Specific stories
World Hijab Day
For those with lived experience of migration who also wear a hijab, niqab or burqa, we want to hear from you about:
- What is your experience of being a migrant who also wears a hijab in a racist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant world?
- How does your migration experience, or your experience with the asylum or immigration system, relate to or affect your experience of wearing a hijab?
- How does your experience wearing a hijab relate to or affect your migration experience, or experience with the immigration and asylum system?
- Is there anything else you would like to share around your experience of being a migrant who practises modesty, or around how you deal with stereotypes and assumptions around your faith?
Amplifying the stories of migrants who wear a hijab, and the experiences they face, can help us to better understand how the immigration system uniquely affects migrants with hijabs. By acknowledging where anti-migrant policy intersects with other forms of oppression, like Islamophobia, we can more effectively challenge the ideologies and structures that ‘Other’ people and make them feel less welcome. We continuously explore issues that affect all migrants, especially those who are multiply marginalised, in our Who Is Welcome campaign.
LGBT History Month
Forget the history written in textbooks that always sides with the oppressor! Your stories, your experiences, your lives: that is the true history! This LGBT History Month, we want to hear your stories- we want to hear from you!
Your stories can provide crucial insights for our Who is Welcome: Gender Queerness and Migration campaign, where we uncover how gender stereotypes, sexism, homophobia and transphobia intersect with migration status, and shape queer migrants’ experiences of borders and immigration systems.
- Are you a migrant who is also part of the LGBTQIA+ community?
- Do you want to share your experience of being an LGBTQIA+ migrant in a queerphobic, bordered world?
- Do you want to tell your story about how your gender and/or sexuality affects your migration experience?
- Do you think anti-migrant hatred is related to homophobia and transphobia? How?
- Do you think migration and queerness are related? Do you think there are intersections between being queer and being a migrant?
- What does history mean to you? How can history be used to create a kinder world?
If any of these questions resonate with you, please get in touch!