Saida Vucaj (in pink) plays with her friends at Kingsway, three days before she and her family were deported. Kingsway, Glasgow, 10 September 2005
Elvis Vucaj (second from left). Kingsway, Glasgow, 10 September 2005
Nimet Vucaj walks quickly out of the Home Office reporting centre at Brand St. The Vucaj family is from Albania. Their asylum claim was rejected, and they were reporting weekly to the Home Office. Brand St., Glasgow, 3 September 2005
Returning to their home in Kingsway after reporting to the Home Office, Nimet Vucaj looks out of the window. Brand St., Glasgow, 3 September 2005
Issen Vucaj smiles with relief as he walks out of the Home Office. For this week, they had been asked to prepare a list of medicines and provide birth certificates. This request is usually an indicator that a family is about to be deported. On this
Saida Vucaj’s bedroom. Kingsway, Glasgow, 15 September 2005
The Vucaj parents' bedroom, two days after the family was taken into detention. On 13 September the Vucaj family was taken into detention, prior to being ‘forcibly removed’ from the UK. Immigration officials and police arrived early in the morn
A school tie lies on the bed in the Vucaj parents' room. Kingsway, Glasgow, 15 September 2005
The Vucaj kitchen. Kingsway, Glasgow, 15 September 2005
Majlinda on the phone to the Vucaj’s lawyer. A close friend of Nexhi Vucaj, she spent days on the phone, trying to find out if there was any chance of stopping the Vucaj family being deported. Kingsway, Glasgow, 15 September 2005
After the Vucaj family was taken into detention, their friends and neighbours at Kingsway began campaigning on their behalf. Here, girls make a poster that reads ‘We Want Them Back’. In the photograph are Nexhi and Saida Vucaj. Kingsway, Glasg
Oussama and Mohammed race down stairs distributing leaflets to advertise a demonstration protesting the deportation of asylum seekers, including the Vucaj family. Kingsway, Glasgow, September 2005
Asylum seekers from Kingsway hold banners, including one calling for the return of Elvis, the Vucaj's eldest son. Kingsway, Glasgow, September 2005
On 29 September, the Vucaj family was taken from the removal centre at Yarl’s Wood, loaded onto an aeroplane at Gatwick airport, and flown back to Albania. Kingsway, Glasgow, 29 September 2005
On the day the Vucaj family was deported from the UK, Amanda sits and absorbs the fact that her friends are gone. A support worker at the Kingsway Health and Wellbeing Centre, Amanda was a close friend of Saida Vucaj. After an intense two weeks of t
A photograph of Nexhi Vucaj hangs in the Scottish Parliament, part of a series of photographs of asylum seekers, presumably to highlight Scotland’s proud multiculturalism. Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, October 2005
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