Fellow’s Profile
Daisy Jacobs
Fellow’s Profile
Daisy Jacobs
How can social enterprises help us to use ritual, tradition and rites of passage as opportunities for healing and connection?
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Developing support through social enterprise for asylum seekers awaiting refugee status
Countries
Fellowship year
2020
Supported by
Biography
I am the co-founder and Director of Routes, a London-based social enterprise supporting women with experience of the UK asylum system.
Since 2015, through my work and volunteering in the UK and Europe, I have been exploring how organisations and individuals can resist the hostility and lack of humanity of the asylum system. I am specifically interested in how to support people who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim to stay positive, purposeful and productive whilst in limbo.
Through my Fellowship, I was hoping to explore the role of social enterprise in this, by visiting Germany, Jordan and Turkey, whose asylum systems and approaches to social enterprise are vastly different from one another, and from ours in the UK.
Whilst my Fellowship has been paused because of the pandemic, I have continued to explore this through my day-to-day work, and connecting with other organisations across Europe looking to address this in different ways. I look forward to picking up my Fellowship as soon as I am able to.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
