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Cooking Up Community: Meet Migrateful’s Marvellous Volunteers

Migrateful Community
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June 19, 2025
If you’ve ever joined a Migrateful cookery class, you’ve probably felt it - that welcoming atmosphere where strangers quickly become friends, stories flow freely, and delicious food brings people together. While our chefs and facilitators are at the heart of this experience, there’s another vital ingredient working hard behind the…
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Racial Discrimination Targeting Migrants in the UK

It is the UN Week in Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination. Here at Migrateful, many of our chefs are directly impacted by the discriminatory immigration policies in the UK, otherwise known as The Hostile Environment. We wish to take this opportunity to share some of…
UK Commentary
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March 24, 2021
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Mental Health Resources for Migrants

Migrateful is committed to supporting our chefs with useful resources that promote mental health support and wellbeing. Below are a few of the organisations we are proud to share. Therapy & Counselling Ultimate Counselling, Training and Support Services  Offer 1-2-1 counselling and psychotherapy serviceshttps://ucts.org.uk Refugee CouncilOffer mental health supporthttps://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/service-category/mental-health/ Refugee Therapy CenterProvide therapeutic support…
Resources
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March 11, 2021
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How did the Syrian War start and why is it still happening 10 years later?

March 15th 2011, 10 years ago from today, marked the start of the Syrian war. It began with 50 peaceful protestors, calling for democratic reform. Syria has an autocratic government with the al-Assad family in power since 1963. In this world, such demonstrations were rare. Unbeknownst to the 50 protestors and…
Global Conflicts
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March 11, 2021
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What is the difference between a refugee and an asylum seeker?

Learn the legal and social meanings of migrant, refugee and asylum seeker and how to use the terms with integrity.
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February 24, 2021
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Abdul's Khichri from the Migrateful Cookery Class with attendees from the Migration Museum

Migrateful Meets Abdul: Interview with Iran-born refugee Chef

Migrateful Founder Jess interviews Abdul, an Iran-born refugee from Afghanistan. He shares his story as a chef, TV producer, business owner and integration officer.​
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February 4, 2021
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October 23, 2017

Cooking up companionship in the Migrateful kitchen

Some anthropologists say that sharing food is what makes us human. There’s nothing else we do that is so central to making us feel part of a group. Sharing food…
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September 17, 2017

The privilege of home | Jess Thompson | OPENx 2017 Shortlist

In her poignant talk Jess explores the privilege of home and introduces us to people who have been forced to leave theirs with little hope of ever returning. With stories…
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September 17, 2017

Planes and Prejudice: cultural fault lines in the Meadows

Overcoming ethnic tensions in one of the UK's lowest-income council estates As part of the Year Here Fellowship, our team was asked to carry out a two-month consultancy project in the…
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September 17, 2017

Falling From The Sky

I recently finished a six month placement at the Bromley-by-Bow community centre, located in Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest and most ethnically diverse boroughs in London. 43% of residents…
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September 17, 2017

Bombs, Bare-bums and Xenophobia

On holiday last July, we four Brits got changed behind some bushes beside a busy lake on the outskirts of Montpelier. To the groups delight, Tom mid-change tripped and fell…
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September 16, 2017

The privilege of home

I first experienced the intensity of leaving home aged eighteen heading off to spend three months in Senegal - an overwhelming sensation of anxiety, impossible to distinguish from excitement. To…
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