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Poet Caroline Smith reveals the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in new collection

Caroline Smith has worked with refugees and asylum seekers for 15 years

By: Eastern Eye Staff

An immigration caseworker has drawn on her experience of working with refugees and asylum seekers to pen their often “heart-breaking” and “spirit-sapping” tales in a new poetry collection. Caroline Smith, who has carried out the role in Wembley for 15 years in her MP-husband Barry Gardiner’s constituency office, reveals the struggles of those seeking asylum in the UK in The Immigration Handbook. Her poems feature stories from families fleeing persecution, including a Sri Lankan man whose wife and child tragically died in a shipping container, and a carpet seller from Kampala oppressed by the Idi Amin regime in Uganda. Smith,…

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