Saturday 12 December 2015

The Road to Wigan Pier, via Aleppo


http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/29/london-calling-english-speaking-syrian-refugees-to-multicultural-haven.html

My latest feature on Syrian refugees for AlJazeera, this time one those who have chosen to come to the UK - even though countries like Germany and Sweden seem much more obvious destinations because of their comparatively generous asylum policies. Only about 5,000 Syrians have been granted asylum in the UK since the war started in 2011.