EP. 3 Jess Thompson, social entrepreneur | Supporting belonging through business

Surviving on £25 a week, working in a place called Ceuta and not seeing your family for decades

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7:00 / Improving the lives of our chefs… isolation, employability skills…
8:28 / Selling migration. They’ve taken our housing and our benefits
11:30 / Austerity they’ve cut initiatives that facilitate integration
15:50 / "Is that not integration?" "Integration for who’s sake?"
17:25 / On immense cultural changes in the UK
25:45 / Being separated from your family for decades
35:13 / ‘empowerment’ is relative
41:20 / “All of [the chefs] speak about how it’s changed their lives”
45:13 / Migration issues are highly contextual - have you heard of Ceuta?
1:00:32 / The work is inherently political. Joao, could you survive on £25 a week?
1:20:30 / It was an idea and I was fairly sceptical... keep checking that your idea is helping people

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And find more of Jess and Migrateful here:

https://www.migrateful.org/
https://www.migrateful.org/blog/
https://www.instagram.com/migratefuluk/
https://twitter.com/migratefulUK
https://twitter.com/jesslizthompson

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