Refugee Tales

Refugee Tales brings together storytelling and walking and, using the model of The Canterbury Tales, it shares the stories of people who have experienced indefinite immigration detention in the UK.

Stories are shared in the first person by experts by experience, by leading writers such as Ali Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Abdulrazak Gurnah and are published in five anthologies by Comma Press that have sold over 22,000 copied worldwide. Refugee Tales is rooted in the befriending work of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group and walks have listening and learning together at their heart with Refugee Tales walkers building solidarity and community as they walk towards the same horizon. In the words of Ali Smith, Refugee Tales works ‘for the better imagined’.