Jiyan* was born two weeks after their Kurdish parents arrived in the UK in search of asylum. As a non-binary person with Kurdish heritage who has only ever lived in Britain, their life is one lived in and between currently available categories of nation and gender. Mizy Judah Clifton […]
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Mental health of immigrants, the other challenge
Relocating means more than just living in another country. It is about coping with a change where you lose almost everything you own and encounter a new culture that you don’t know, and that doesn’t know you. Sanity and insanity waver dangerously. Taylor Zambrano A Colombian woman flees […]
The challenges facing British Latinos
Every generation faces a different challenge. And this is certainly true for British children of Latin-Americans who wish to return to the country of their parents. Ramón Lafée The language, the residency papers, adapting to a different culture; these are just some of the difficulties that the previous […]
José Pais: Prostitutes and mothers in Bragança
A rich and sensitive sociological analysis of the intersections of sex and money, in the contexts of traditional family expectations and the conflicting desire for freedom in a rapidly changing world. Mothers on both sides of the conflict; male bonding and male secrecy. (The Prisma memoirs) Graham Douglas […]
40 years since the death of Manuel Galich
His ability to teach history to the student in such an enjoyable way through the use of fine irony, humor and profuse anecdotes were some of the features that defined the character of the Guatemalan intellectual. Randy Saborit Mora He was baptized as The Voice of the Guatemalan […]