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Woman's Hour: Female Refugees, Karen Maine director of Yes God, Yes, Women and their Scars

Female Refugees, Karen Maine director of Yes God, Yes, Women and their Scars

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Female Refugees, Karen Maine director of Yes God, Yes, Women and their Scars

What happens to the small percentage of young female unaccompanied refugees in the UK?

Only 10 percent of young unaccompanied refugees who come to the UK are female. What happens to them?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for Britain and France to work together to stop migrant boats crossing the Channel  to Dover. On Friday a record number of unaccompanied migrant children arrived in the UK.  The 23 youths were taken into the care of Kent County Council, on top of the 70 who arrived in July.  According to the latest Home Office Statistics 90% of young (under 18) unaccompanied  refugees who come in to the UK every year are male.   What happens to the ten percent who are female? We hear from  Dinah Beckett from Migration Yorkshire  and Sharon Pearson who’s fostered Elsa.

Yes God, Yes is a new film about 16 year old Alice growing up a Catholic and attending Catholic school in the early noughties in Midwest America  During a chat on AOL she discovers masturbation and is overwhelmed with guilt. Seeking redemption, she attends a religious retreat to try and suppress her urges. Karen Maine, is the director..

Part of our series about women and scars:  we meet Laura who is  27 – she’s a care worker from Caerphilly in South Wales and she is a burns survivor.

 In 1920, a hundred years ago, the American Congress passed the 19th Amendment which gave women in the United States the right to vote. There had been an active and vociferous suffragette movement, led by some well known names – Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony. The name of Lucy Stone is less familiar. She wanted votes for all, regardless of sex or race. Moira Hickey went to her birthplace, West Brookfield, Massachusetts in 2018 to join the celebration of the bicentenary of Lucy Stone’s birth. 


Presenter: Jenni Murray
Reporter: Ena Miller
Reporter: Moira Hickey
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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