I am the co-founder and Director of Routes, a London-based social enterprise supporting women with experience of the UK asylum system. Since 2015, through my work and volunteering in the UK and Europe, I have been exploring how organisations and individuals can resist the hostility and lack of humanity of the asylum system. I am specifically interested in how to support people who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim to stay positive, purposeful and productive whilst in limbo. Through my Fellowship, I was hoping to explore the role of social enterprise in this, by visiting Germany, Jordan and Turkey, whose asylum systems and approaches to social enterprise are vastly different from one another, and from ours in the UK. Whilst my Fellowship has been paused because of the pandemic, I have continued to explore this through my day-to-day work, and connecting with other organisations across Europe looking to address this in different ways. I look forward to picking up my Fellowship as soon as I am able to.