Come in, come in, says a man at the entrance to his handicrafts shop, while all around him there is the hustle and bustle of prospective customers shuffling from one side of the street to the other in front of hundreds of shops and stalls. Roberto Castellanos To […]
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The crossroads of a Latin American immigrant
The electoral gains of UKIP with its anti-immigrant discourse and ability to charge the domestic agenda and front pages with the need to cut immigrant rights, do not suggest a very promising outlook.. But under no circumstances does an immigrant abandon their ethnic and cultural roots. Claudio Chipana* […]
“It is violent… to criminalise immigrants”: Trenton Oldfield
Despite the fact that historically, the greatest number of immigrants have been Europeans, today they are doing all they can to block the entry of those whose identities they stole. Virginia Moreno Molina The European colonisation of South America is something that stands in conflict with the massive […]
Beatriz Cámara: “The hardest thing is not having Madrid and my family close by”
Beatriz is a 37-year-old woman who has lived in London since 2003. “My life in Spain seems like a different lifetime,” she says jokingly, she jokes a lot. Fernando Marin Her family call her “the British member of the family” and now she can say that she is […]
Owen Gower: Still the enemy within
The Scottish producer talks about his latest film. His first documentary film as a director is on the miners’ strikes that ravaged the country 30 years ago. Fernando Marín Gascón “We knew people who had lived through the strikes themselves, with experiences that had to be told” is […]