Leo Nelki Gopfert

• BA Combined Honours (With Year Abroad)
• Refugees in Japan

Research into the lives and stories of refugee applicants in Tokyo. Understanding, by conducting video interviews, the complex legal and personal situation of asylum seekers in Japan, a country with by far the lowest refugee acceptance rate of any OECD country. Allowing refugees to narrate their own experience on film provides an opportunity to understand the areas of focus which they themselves deem significant.

Funding source: Newcastle University

Project Supervisor: Dr Tina Gharavi