Left Destitute: Glasgow's Forgotten Asylum Seekers
Winner of Refugee Week Media Award 2013 Sitting on a battered couch in a West End church beneath a poster of Glasgow, Michael Smith talks of the life of poverty he lives in the city. There's an intense sorrow hanging behind his eyes, a measure of loss that can't be quantified or explained. Memories of his family back home haunt his days in Glasgow, where he now lives a terrified, isolated life as an asylum seeker. Michael - not his real name - was once a successful businessma