Welcoming Blue Robins - Doe, Roz

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Biographie:
Roz Doe has been working with young refugees and asylum seekers for over 20 years. She holds an MSc in Forced Migration and a doctorate focused on the experiences of Bhutanese refugee children growing up in camps in Nepal, both from the University of Oxford. In 2004, she co-founded the charity, Young Roots, which has worked with young refugees in Lebanon, Egypt, Nepal and currently provides services for young people living in London. She held various roles within the organisation and was working most recently in Croydon as a Senior Youth Caseworker supporting young refugees and asylum seekers until September 2021. She is currently a Specialist Support Worker at the Hummingbird Refugee Project in Brighton and is also a recently qualified counselor working within a school counselling service.Roz Doe has been writing poetry for the last 8 years and much of her work focuses on the experiences of the refugees she has worked with. After becoming a mother in 2015, Roz initiated a women's writing group, which (prior to lockdown) met monthly in a community centre with assistance from a childminder. In 2019, Roz was selected to be part of The Writers' Place Poets Development Programme at New Writing South....

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Roz Doe holds an MSc in Forced Migration and has been working with young refugees and asylum seekers for over 20 years. In 2004, she co-founded the charity, Young Roots, which worked with young refugees in Lebanon, Egypt and Nepal and currently provides services for young people living in London. Young refugees have been forced to flee the only life they have ever known, escaping unimaginable situations of war and persecution. Many face further traumatic experiences on their journeys to the UK, and the vast majority of young refugees arrive here alone, without their family or any sense of community. Instead of finding safety, relief and care, they are met with hostility and isolation, as well as disbelief around the most fundamental parts of their identity, such as their age.The poems and prose in Welcoming Blue Robins were inspired by young refugees she worked with and the pamphlet also contains poems written by and with young refugees in London....