political geographer | extraction, dissent, decolonial thought, Thomas Sankara | author @PlutoPress | prof @oxfordgeography | editor @AfricaGeoReview | she/her
Dec 12, 2022 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
Marcy, my Cameroonian mother in-law, had her visitor visa refused by @ukhomeoffice because she is retired & 'widowed'.
Our family has had too many insulting, dehumanising, inferiating experiences w/ the HO.
Yet the pain, the rage. My trembling, numb fingers. 1/
My mother in-law is NOT a widow.
She has been married for 25 years.
This was clear ALL over her application, if someone @ukhomeoffice had been troubled to actually read it, OR if there was a system of accountability for their egregious errors
My mother in-law is NOT a widow.