Finding Spaces to Belong is an hour-long ethnographic documentary film that delves into the lives of four deaf migrants navigating their way in London. From Lenka, a Czech au pair keen on improving her English, to Samba, who was brought over from Sierra Leone at 13 for better education opportunities; from Luis, who traveled from […]
by Sanchu Iyer, 19th November 2021
Steve Emery, 4 September 2020 When deaf people go to a new country they usually ask where the deaf school or the deaf club is. These are landmarks on the deaf landscape, present in almost every country and thus recognised and expected to exist. Another way of thinking about this feature is to see it […]
By: Sanchayeeta Iyer, 5 June 2020 What it is like to be a deaf migrant in London, emigrating to a new city in search for a better opportunity and quality of life? Or to start a new chapter in your life? Or being involuntarily brought into the city as a young person or a refugee? […]
By: Steve Emery, Thursday 23 January 2020 In this vlog, I suggest a Bourdieusian framework can help or assist us in understanding and making sense of the world of deaf migrants who participated in our research. It is common in Bourdieusian studies to refer to three key interlocking conceptual tools of habitus, capital and field […]
by Sanchayeeta Iyer, 6 May 2019 With the deadline for the UK to exit the EU looming near (at the time of writing, the deadline has now been extended to 29th of June), combined with the delay in achieving majority agreement in the house of Parliament on an exit deal, there is a sense of […]
Image: outside of the building, City Lit College, which is on a road with vehicles parked opposite By Steve Emery, 11 March 2019 Of the many observations undertaken in my fieldwork in London none stand out so more marked than City Lit College, which is close to Covent Garden and the Holborn area of the […]
TRANSCRIPT Hello, it’s a beautiful day, isn’t it? (Steve: yes it’s beautiful). I am Sanchu, and I am Steve. We are working on a research project, that is called ‘MobileDeaf’, but what it is about? It is focusing on migration to London and soon we will be engaged in making an ethnographic film for the […]
By: Steve Emery, 20 October 2018 Every year in October the UK hosts Black History Month (BHM) celebrations. They started in 1987 in the UK by Ghanaian-born Akyaaba Addai Sebo, a special projects officer at the Greater London Council after a visit to the USA. [Fun fact, in 1987 I was working at GLC as a […]
By: Steve Emery (The above zoomable map is the copyright of geographer Oliver O’Brien and James Cheshire of University College London – it maps where ethnic groups settle in London street by street, with thanks to Feargus O’Sullivan at Citylab) I began my fieldwork research in London at the end of February 2018. I have lived […]