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Acknowledgements

This free course is an adapted extract from the course DD305 Personal lives and social policy, which is currently out of presentation.

Course image: Erik Törner [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence.

The material is contained in Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy (ed. Gail Lewis) 2004, published in association with The Policy Press © The Open University, 2004. This publication forms part of the Open University course DD305, Personal Lives and Social Policy.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions). This content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission:

Mahdi Muhammed Ali, translator Salaam Yousif (2003) ‘Flight’ in Weissbort, D. and Simawe, S.A. (eds) Iraqi Poetry Today, Modern Poetry in Translation, No.19, MPT, The School of Humanities, Kings College London. © Modern Poetry in Translation 2003;

Bungwe, R. (2002) ‘Refugee’ in Teichman, I. (2002) Credit to the Nation: Refugee Contributions to the UK. By kind permission of the Refugee Council.

Figure 1 Crossing the River Gillo – by Mac Anyat, aged 17. From One Day We Had To Run – by Sybella Wilkes and published by Evans Brothers Limited. This image may not be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission of Evans Brothers Limited;

Figure 2 front page G2, The Guardian, 1 May 2003 © Steve Caplin;

Figure 3 Wiener Library;

Figure 4,6 © The Guardian;

Figure 5© Hulton Archive.

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