Members of YoungRAPAR, who have been working on a project with Dr Grainne McMahon of Huddersfield University, pictured at the University when they attended and contributed to Dr McMahon's lecture on migration and asylum.
About YoungRAPAR
YoungRAPAR is a group of RAPAR members who are aged 30 and under. Young RAPAR is involved in a variety of campaign-focused participatory action research projects, and other work.
YoungRAPAR’s main project, funded by the University of Huddersfield, with Dr Grainne McMahon (University of Huddersfield) and Dr Rhetta Moran (RAPAR Trustee), is about the lived experiences of young people seeking asylum in the UK.
‘Faceless’ The first part of this research was part of a Europe-wide study (Partispace), in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield, which explored young people’s social and political participation in eight cities across Europe. YoungRAPAR was a key part of the study because of the unique experiences, perspectives, needs and desires of young people seeking asylum in the UK’s ‘hostile environment’. YoungRAPAR produced a short film for this project, called ‘Faceless’. Faceless depicted, dramaturgically, the young people’s lived realities, and aimed to reach out to the public in order to create a dialogue around the lives and experiences of young people seeking asylum. It explored the invisibility of the asylum seeker and featured two ‘faceless’ people and their interaction with a ‘stranger’. Faceless and was written and filmed by one YoungRAPAR member and performed by three others. Faceless has been screened in numerous places: at HOME, Manchester, as part of Refugee Week; at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Partispace Colloquium; at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Community Development Week 2018; and at the Partispace Final Conference in Paris, where YoungRAPAR was represented by Dr Rhetta Moran.
Here is a trailer for Faceless:
YoungRAPAR is a group of RAPAR members who are aged 30 and under. Young RAPAR is involved in a variety of campaign-focused participatory action research projects, and other work.
YoungRAPAR’s main project, funded by the University of Huddersfield, with Dr Grainne McMahon (University of Huddersfield) and Dr Rhetta Moran (RAPAR Trustee), is about the lived experiences of young people seeking asylum in the UK.
‘Faceless’ The first part of this research was part of a Europe-wide study (Partispace), in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield, which explored young people’s social and political participation in eight cities across Europe. YoungRAPAR was a key part of the study because of the unique experiences, perspectives, needs and desires of young people seeking asylum in the UK’s ‘hostile environment’. YoungRAPAR produced a short film for this project, called ‘Faceless’. Faceless depicted, dramaturgically, the young people’s lived realities, and aimed to reach out to the public in order to create a dialogue around the lives and experiences of young people seeking asylum. It explored the invisibility of the asylum seeker and featured two ‘faceless’ people and their interaction with a ‘stranger’. Faceless and was written and filmed by one YoungRAPAR member and performed by three others. Faceless has been screened in numerous places: at HOME, Manchester, as part of Refugee Week; at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Partispace Colloquium; at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Community Development Week 2018; and at the Partispace Final Conference in Paris, where YoungRAPAR was represented by Dr Rhetta Moran.
Here is a trailer for Faceless:
Faceless trailer final from gm on Vimeo.