Refugee Tales V: Migrants’ Fragmented (Auto)Biographies and Wasted Lives in the Contemporary British Expulsive Environment

Abstract: This paper aims to shed light on fragmented migration narratives as portrayed in Refugee Tales V (2024) which mainly focuses on the United Kingdom’s migratory policies. Besides depriving migrants, refugees and asylum seekers of their civil and human rights, these policies engender wasted lives for certain categories of human beings who are not allowed to stay in the United Kingdom. Ten years after the first walk of solidarity, the ethics of care, consideration and attention that start with the act of listening to stories of people who experience the reality of the British border institutions’ immigration detention are still relevant.