Language of the Law - presented by Pinar Aksu

These slides were presented by Pinar Aksu, from the University of Glasgow, at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024 (Word Springs) on 23 May 2024. For more information about the event, please visit https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/events/springschool/

1. Un UNESCO RILA Spring School 2024 The arts of integration word springs 23rd May 2024 Language of the Law Pinar Aksu [email protected]

2. Art and Law in Migration-  art practices for social change and access to justice in migration What is the connection between art and law in the context of migration? How art practices can be part of creating social change? What is access to justice for people navigating the immigration system?

3. Borders

4. Migrants Refugees Asylum seekers Hurricane  Millions   ‘change starts where one is, and developed from there can rival the sweeping political changes of those holding political power’       (Leeson, 2018, 128). 

5. Unpacking the Law 

6. Alternative  "a reflection on reality and rehearsal for future action which in the present, we re-live the past to create the future’"     (Boal, 1998, p9). 

7. Thank you 

8. Reference Boal, A., 1998. Legislative Theatre, using performance to make politics. ( A.Jackson , Trans.) London: Routledge  Leeson, L. (2018). Art : process : change: inside a socially situated practice. New York: Routledge. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/37/crossheading/entry-settlement-and-citizenship  

9. Articles https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61808120   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67621253 https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/revealed-what-priti-patel-spent-selling-rwanda-deportations-to-the-public/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61097114   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/10/rwanda-un-agency-mounts-last-minute-intervention-block-priti/   https://news.sky.com/story/home-secretary-suella-braverman-to-question-if-refugee-convention-is-fit-for-our-modern-age-in-us-think-tank-speech-12970029 https://www.ft.com/content/20445459-4914-4091-95b8-ec376ddf366b   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66637145   https://inews.co.uk/news/inside-rwandan-hostel-suella-braverman-uk-asylum-seekers-2747955   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-rwanda-dream-obsession-b2195296.html