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"Refugee and Asylum Seeker postcard, 'Greetings from Manchester', 2012" [NMLH.2014.9.6]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.2014.9.6

Object Name
Postcard

Title
Using a food voucher is twice as expensive and stressful, for you have to spend on items that you may get cheaper somewhere else but you have no choice. You are a criminal and your crime is you've claimed asylum in this country

Place
Manchester

People
RAPAR- Refugee and Asylum Seeker Participatory Action Research

Date
2012

Creator(s)


Description
RAPAR (Refugee and Asylum Seeker Participatory Action Research) is a Manchester-based human rights organisation working with people, both locally and further afield, who face challenges relating to citizenship, housing, deportation, employment, education, personal safety and other problems. They enable people’s access to the services they need, and release their abilities to find effective solutions to challenges facing them.

Artist Sophia Gardiner joined up with RAPAR on a project called 'Uncredibles: Greetings from Manchester' to make these postcards. Gardiner worked with two RAPAR members who contributed quotes from their Home Office refusal letters along with statements about how they are treated in the asylum system. These were produced into postcards as a satirical take on the traditional tourist postcards that try to promote the city as a beautiful and welcoming place.

Among the donation of postcards was also 'Protest confetti' used in anti-racism campaigns as an interesting way of spreading opinion to promote immigration. (see NMLH.2014.9.14)



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