Project Organisers and Partners
- Evelyn Oldfield Unit
- The unit provides professional training and support to refugee community organisations to enable them to better serve their communities
www.evelynoldfield.co.uk - Museum of London
- Organiser of a major exhibition about the refugees interviewed for this project and is archiving all the project interviews for posterity.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk - London Metropolitan University
- Trains the project's fieldworkers in oral history methodology.
www.londonmet.ac.uk
Project Funders
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- www.hlf.org.uk
- City Parochial Foundation
and Trust for London - www.cityparochial.org.uk
About Refugees
- The 1951 Refugee Convention
- www.unhcr.org/1951convention/
This site includes an excellent question & answer page about refugees. - UNHCR
- The agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Today, a staff of around 6,540 people in 116 countries continues to help 19.2 million persons.
www.unhcr.org - Refugee Council
- The council is a UK organisation that works with refugees and asylum seekers to provide help and support and ensure their needs and concerns are addressed.
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
Related Websites
- The Charity Awards
- The Evelyn Oldfield Unit's Refugee Communities History Project won the 2006 award for 'arts, culture and heritage'. This is the project's website.
www.charityawards.co.uk - Oral History Society
- A UK-based organisation that helps people of all ages to tape, video or write down people's life stories.
www.ohs.org.uk - Untold London
- A wonderful guide to London's diverse communities with events listings, histories, and many links to other interesting sites.
www.untoldlondon.org.uk - The Panos Institute
- www.panos.org.uk
- Vietnamese Oral History Project
- A collection of over 100 interviews with Vietnamese refugees. The CD, 'Every tree has its roots', is available from this site:
Part of www.refugee-action.org.uk - European Council on Refugee and Exiles Refugee Stories Project
- A collection of interviews with people who have sought sanctuary in 12 EU countries.
Part of www.ecre.org/refugeestories
Refugee Community Groups
- CARA
- www.academic-refugees.org
- Chinese Information & Advice Centre
- www.ciac.co.uk
- Ethiopian Community in Britain
- www.ethiopiancommunity.co.uk
- Harringey Somali Community & Cultural Association
- www.somalicommunity.org.uk
- Imece Turkish Speaking Women's Group
- www.imece.org.uk
- Iraqi Community Association
- www.iraqicommunity.org
- Latin American Women's Rights Service
- www.lawrs.org.uk
- Afghan Association of London
- www.afghan-association.org.uk
- Latin American House
- http://laha.wordpress.com/
- Tamil Relief Centre
- www.trcuk.org
- Roma Support Group
- www.romasupportgroup.org.uk
- African Community Health and Research organisation
- www.lightingafrica.org