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Asylum Justice Matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2010

Nicholas Coulton
Affiliation:
Dean Emeritus of Newcastle, Lately Sub-Dean, Christ Church, Oxford1

Abstract

I first came to know asylum seekers in 2000 when working at Newcastle Cathedral. First a Rwandan joined our worship, and later an Iranian. I never asked if the Rwandan was Hutu or Tutsi since the massacres there were too complex for labelling. We knew his family were prominent French-speaking Anglicans, and that in the camps he had become separated from his wife and children. A year or so later my wife recognised his wife's name in an account by a senior Mothers' Union lady of her visit to Africa and to a refugee camp in which his wife had formed an MU branch. Eventually his wife and children were able to join him on Tyneside.

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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2010

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