Child Migrant Voices - from Hackney and beyond

Margaret Andrews, author who arrived from Carriacou, aged eight, interviews Eithne Nightingale, about her new book Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s -Present Day, Richard Lue, who followed his mother to London from Jamaica; Maurice Nwokeji who survived the Biafran war, Linh Vu who fled Vietnam by boat and Fatim Nikolaure who escaped Guinea to avoid FGM. Patrick Vernon OBE, activist will talk about lessons learnt from the Home Office Windrush scandal and Emily Graham, Safe Passage about Routes to Safety, chaired by Wendy Pettifer, solicitor and migrant rights campaigner.

Maurice Nwokeji will give a reggae performance inspired by the Biafran war before the signing and sale of books and screening of short films of child migrants who have arrived in Hackney from Cyprus, El Salvador, Nigeria and Vietnam.