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Nowhere to Call Home: Climate Change and Forced Migration
Nowhere to Call Home explores the human issues around climate change and forced migration. Photographic and filmed portraits of climate refugees from Bangladesh and Sami people from the Arctic, whose way of life is threatened by climate change, have been captured by the Environmental Justice Foundation, with their stories told as audio dramatisations by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma.
These events are part of Season for Change, a UK-wide programme of cultural responses celebrating the environment and inspiring urgent action on climate change.
Live on Youtube from Friday 26 October – Friday 2 November 2018.
The 8 audio stories have also been individually added to our Library.
Abdul's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'As time went on we knew this was no way to live. We were becoming ill; our children couldn’t go to school. We didn’t want to leave, our hearts belonged to that place, we still had land in our name even though it was now under water. We had no choice but to move.'
Abdul's Story: Motherland
Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Amirul Hussain
Afaz's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'These wealthy countries who have industrial factories, who pump out smoke from cars, they are damaging the poorer countries who have no power to defend themselves. It makes no sense; these people cause the problems and then send us aid. Why not try to prevent the problem in the first place?'
Afaz's Story: Six Seasons
Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Amirul Hussain
Aslat's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'If you think of me, where I am living my life and how, the way my forefathers have lived their lives, this is all I know. If I can’t live like this, then how should I live? If I have to change my way of life then the whole Sami culture will change… and all will be lost.'
Aslat's Story: Black Snow
Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Johan Hallstrom
Lars-Ante's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'In the beginning there was a kind of tranquillity to the landscape... But now you can feel that all the wildlife is struggling. Back then, when I was in the forest there were so many birds flying everywhere. But today, there are far fewer to be seen in the air. Even the birds are in decline.'
Lars-Ánte's Story: The Glimpse of Hope Inside You
Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Sindri Swan
Kenneth's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'I can’t understand why we are forgetting nature, why we are abusing the world. We think it’s so big, but it’s not. We are all connected some way, somehow. We will all have to live with the consequences.'
Kenneth's Story: You Can't Take Anything With You
Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Dag Soerlie
Komola's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'In the flood, 80 or 90 families that I know lost their homes. They were attached to one another in a row, some of them were my husband’s uncles and aunts, all were lost. Maybe 250 people were made homeless in minutes. The people who could afford to move then went to other places where they could find a living.'
Komola's Story: Land of River
Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Shama Rahman
Meherunesa's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'Living with such uncertainty is torture. We worry, will we last this night? Will we see the day light tomorrow? Even if we do survive what about our children? Will they?'
Meherunesa's Story: To Save Ourselves
Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Rahima Delvero
Renu's Story | Nowhere to Call Home
'I sit here in the dark, in the heat, and I think of the home we had, the lands, the trees, the fish. I think how all of it has been taken away – my whole life was washed away by that stream. Now I have nothing, no future, no certainties. Who will give me shelter? Who will give me place where I can rest and die?'
Renu's Story: The River Took It All Dramatised by Ursula Rani Smith
Read by Mita Rahman