From the Margins to Centre Stage: Migrant families challenging the effects of the No Recourse to Public Funds Policy

Sponsored by Kate Green, MP for Stretford and Urmston

Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Migration

The 'From the Margins to Centre Stage' event will highlight some of the issues experienced by families with No Recourse to Public Funding (NRPF) and will facilitate a knowledge exchange with migrant families affected by the NRPF policy. Migrant families will be performing forum theatre scenes depicting their daily experiences of life with no recourse to public funds.

Speakers on the day will include (other speakers to be confirmed)

Kate Green MP and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Migration, Baroness Ruth Lister;

Dr Omar Khan, Director at the Runnymede Trust;

Bethan Lant, Advice and Advocacy Officer at Praxis.

As well as discussing the legal, social and political issues surrounding NRPF, we will present the findings of our current research project and launch the ‘Practice Policy Briefing: Participatory Action Research Engaging marginalised communities’

For more information, see the project website

Please RSVP to erene.kaptani@open.ac.uk by 30th November 2017.

Organisers:

Dr Umut Erel and Erene Kaptani The Open University,

Prof. Maggie O’Neill University of York, Prof Tracey Reynolds University of Greenwich, Dr Omar Khan The Runnymede Trust, Kate Green, MP