NESTAC: Hearing the Silenced Stories of Slavery

Chaudhuri, Tandrima; Williams, jeni

doi:10.21954/ou.rd.16910638.v1

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NESTAC: Hearing the Silenced Stories of Slavery

journal contribution

posted on 2022-10-05, 12:55 authored by Tandrima Chaudhuri, jeni Williamsjeni Williams

NESTAC celebrated Black History Month 2021 by hosting a webinar on the impact of Domestic Servitude on the mental health of migrant women in contemporary society, Friday 29th October at 12:30-14:30pm. The session explored the distress of women trapped in a silent form of Modern Slavery known as ‘Domestic Servitude’.

Tandrima, NESTAC coordinator for BAME groups focused on Violence Against Women & the effects of immigration on mental health, and an asylum seeker herself, gave a keynote address to the webinar.

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This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and The Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers & undocumented migrants.

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