The Welsh Asian Heritage Project’s second seminar on the theme of From Migration to Resilience will held online via Zoom on Wednesday 21 February 2024, 5.00pm to 6.30pm.

To secure your place please book on the link below: https://ti.to/digital-past/from-migration-to-resilience

The monthly seminars provide a platform for wider debate around equality, migration, resilience, identity, culture and heritage.

Main speakers:

The keynote speakers are authors Amrit Wilson and Bharti Dhir. Both will speak about their personal and professional experiences of ‘from migration to resilience’. 

Amrit Wilson is an award-winning journalist and an activist on issues of race and gender in Britain and on South Asian politics. She is a founder member of South Asia Solidarity Group and of ‘Awaaz’- a women’s collective that was at the forefront of the fight for Asian women’s rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Amrit’s pioneering book ‘Finding a voice’ was published in 1978 and captured Asian women’s experiences of love, marriage, relationships, friendships as well as of racism in housing, education and at the hands of the law.

Bharti Dhir is a qualified social worker, works in child protection and is the author of ‘Worth’ which is Bharti’s memoir as an African-Asian woman adopted into a Punjabi, Sikh family, and her story of overcoming racism, sexism, health problems and escaping Uganda in 1972 when Idi Amin expelled Asians. Bharti will speak about her personal experiences of overcoming abandonment, discrimination, and adversity to find inner strength and self-worth to shape destiny.