Escape to Safelandia by Kate Evans and Tom Daly
This is a short comic about the asylum process here in the UK, the British history of welcoming refugees, and recent legislation which makes it harder to provide humanitarian assistance to people in need. CONTENT WARNING: contains references to sexual assaul, forced marriage, child slavery, gun crime, human rights abuses and the UK asylum system.
Tom Daly is an immigration adviser for the organisation Bristol Refugee Rights.
Kate Evans is a cartoonist and author who enjoys taking complicated subjects and making them easy to understand.
Bristol Refugee Rights is a charity that works with asylum seekers and refugees in South West England. Our vision is a society where refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are welcomed, feel safe, live free of poverty and are able to positively build their lives. The stories in this comic are clearly fictional, but are based on situations and stories that we see all the time in our work. Find out more and support our work at www.bristolrefugeerights.org
Any political opinions expressed are those of the authors.
Escape to Safelandia has been produced as part of the Visual Politics of Migration project by Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik, Arshad Isakjee, Thom Davies, Karolina Augustova and Gemma Bird. The project is funded by the Research and Knowledge Exchange, Ashton University and Research England.
Escape to Safelandia by Kate Evans and Tom Daly was Riso printed by Footprint Workers co-op in Leeds. Find out more about riso printing and zine printing here.
A4 20pp four colour (black, red, blue and yellow) riso print on Context Natural 100gsm.
