CLER conversation: Solidarity in a Hostile Environment: Participatory ESOL with adults seeking sanctuary in the North of England
Amidst an (inter)national hostile environment towards migrants, spaces of solidarity within language education are vital to understand. As expressed by critical educator, Paulo Freire, "language is never neutral”, and neither are the classrooms in which they are learned. My PhD involved an ethnographic case study of community-based ESOL for people seeking sanctuary in Yorkshire,...