Study after study confirms that immigration is not damaging the UK's economy or public services, yet it is still portrayed negatively by government and media. How can we help change the narrative?

Join authors Hamid Ismailov and Maya Goodfellow as they investigate immigration, exile and the often-overlooked petty humiliations twinned with it in the face of countless government and administrative letdowns.

Hamid's latest novel Of Strangers and Bees (trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega) portrays a writer in exile, while Maya Goodfellow's book Hostile Environment offers a nuanced analysis of the UK’s immigration policy from the 1960s onwards.

The conversation will address the rights that some may take for granted, and the politics around seeing – and not seeing – in an increasingly hostile climate created by the UK government, and how they write about it in fiction and non-fiction.

Tickets are £10 / £8 including a drink.