{"id":72925,"date":"2017-11-26T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/our-safe-haven-how-we-made-ourselves-at-home-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T09:05:21","slug":"our-safe-haven-how-we-made-ourselves-at-home-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/our-safe-haven-how-we-made-ourselves-at-home-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Our safe haven: how we made ourselves at home in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFor people arriving in Britain, creating a familiar space is the first step to settling in. Kieran Yates visits people from Bangladesh, Iran, Syria and elsewhere, to hear how they are making themselves at home in this unfamiliar countryThis year, the idea of home has been challenged. It has felt increasingly unstable for many immigrants who have settled here, especially those who escaped conflict, only to face the fallout of Brexit Britain, or witness the nightmarish Grenfell Tower fire on news reports across the country. Home, and how it plays into the immigrant experience, has never felt more precious \u2013 and more insecure.Home for everyone \u2013 but especially people of colour \u2013 is a political issue. Communities who might never before have felt as if they had a stake in society are learning how to establish something familiar in an unfamiliar place, and how to create space for themselves in a country that doesn\u2019t always say it has space for us: learning how to make a place feel like a home. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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