Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Professor of Film at Monash University Malaysia and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Since 2018 she has worked in the Justice, Arts and Migration Network (Lincoln-Sydney-Hong Kong) on artivist interventions that highlight state injustices against people, including children, on migrant journeys. This work was made possible by Natasha Davis (The Big Walk: It Takes a Decade, 2020), Hoda Afshar (Remain / There's No Place Like Home, 2019), the SYMAAG, Maison de Femmes, and Right to Remain organisers in Dunquerque, Manchester, and Sheffield, and the curators at Mansions of the Future (Lincoln 2018-2020).
Chapter One: The Dorothy Complex
Chapter Two: The Red Balloon and Squirt's Journey: story-telling with child migrants
Chapter Three: Once My Mother, Welcome and Le Havre: breath and the child cosmopolitan
Chapter Four: Little Moth and The Road: precarity, immobility and inertia
Chapter Five: Landscape in the Mist
Chapter Six: The Leaving of Liverpool: Empire and religion, poetry and the archive
Chapter Seven: Diamonds of the Night
Afterword: Where have all the children gone?
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