Esperanza* is a Colombian immigrant who for ten years has been a slave to her husband’s fists. Now she begins a new life. _ Miriam Valero We arrive at Esperanza’s house on a summer afternoon. There, we see this woman’s harsh reality, “working and rushing around all day”, feeding […]
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Amada, rooted in the immigrant community
She fled the political situation in her native country and moved to the UK with her family. Over the past four decades she has lived and worked in this country, helping numerous people in difficult situations. Benjamin Serra “Forget your name, from now on, you are refugees protected […]
Muslim and gay: Minority twice over
This progressive imam is convinced that the rejection faced by homosexuals in the majority of mosques in the West comes from the manipulation by a fundamentalist minority that has nothing to do with the teachings of the Koran. Noelia Ceballos Terrén He was thrust into the media when […]
The origins of the “soul of the city”
Everyday life forced early man to defend himself against the threats of the environment, whereby it started to plan, create and apply this concept until it became an actual entity. Silvio Gonzalez The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK, […]
Squatting, a matter of survival and resistance
In the English-speaking world they are known as ‘squatters’, in Spain ‘okupas’, and in certain Latin American countries as ‘paracaidistas’ (‘parachutists’). These are some of the terms that refer to those people throughout the world who lead lives based on occupying abandoned buildings or abandoned housing.
















