Refugee Tales initiated our Walking Inquiry into Immigration Detention to complement the current Public Inquiry into Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), Gatwick. The government set up the Public Inquiry in response to a 2017 BBC Panorama programme that used undercover filming to reveal mistreatment at Brook House. This is the IRC where our charity, the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, supports people who are detained.

The Walking Inquiry is unique, bringing together the voices and insights of people with lived experience of immigration detention, Volunteer Visitors who provide support to people in detention, and numerous others who joined our deliberations. We created our own methodology, building on our history of walking, talking and sharing together. We invited responses in many forms, including testimony, art, letters, video and poetry. The contributions shine a powerful light on the daily realities of immigration detention, and its complex and enduring impacts. We published our Walking Inquiry findings in July 2022.

Now we are taking the Walking Inquiry on another journey, using a mobile exhibition to share our findings with communities around the U.K. This is designed to be a generative exhibition. We welcome your responses and contributions becoming part of the Walking Inquiry's ongoing exploration of immigration detention.

Everywhere the exhibition goes, new voices will be added as we listen to each other and learn together about how immigration detention affects us all.