This project is a rapid, rights-based response to the digital exclusion faced by refugee and asylum-seeking communities in Margate. It builds on frontline work in Glasgow’s asylum hotels, adapting that experience to a new context of urgent need. Together, Mhor Collective and Art in Ramsgate (AiR) will pilot a relational digital inclusion model rooted in activism, collective care, and civic participation. Using Participatory Action Research (PAR), the team will co-create a digital inclusion project with people directly affected by displacement, racism, and hostile policy. Creative methods will be employed to support storytelling, digital confidence, and civic voice.
This is a connective project—linking lived experience, grassroots arts, and emergency response networks to build inclusive digital infrastructure. It responds to wider social and policy shifts—including the “stop the boats” agenda—by embedding active anti-racism, aligning with INCLUDE+ Principles of dignity, equity, and inclusion. Digital inclusion provision in Ramsgate is extremely limited and though AiR has tried to address this, need continues to grow. Good Things Foundation lists only three databank providers locally, with little targeted support for refugee and asylum-seeking communities. Activists and frontline services report rising need, exclusion, hostility, and isolation.
This project responds to a humanitarian crisis; the need is immediate, and the risks of inaction are high. The work offers a timely, principled intervention—co-designed with those most affected, and focused on rights, care, and connection.
Team
Mhor Collective
Art in Ramsgate