Drawing on the report, The Right to Be Believed (McIlwaine, Granada and Valenzuela-Oblitas, 2019), the artistic collaboration with actor, playwright and director, Gaël Le Cornec, seeks to explore the experiences of migrant women survivors through a voice installation and performance. 

The aim is to explore the barriers that women face when trying to report gender-based violence when they fear their perpetrators, the police and the social services and when they are repeatedly refused support from everyone except specialist migrant organisations.

This collaboration is one of the first Artist in Residencies of the VEM, a hub for methodological innovation which aims to bring social science research into conversation with the arts.

Photos by Lyanne Wylde