These are the stories of people convicted of minor crimes and deported to their place of birth in the Azores, which many left as young children. Deported hours after sentences completed, refused permission to say goodbye to families, or refused entry after a holiday, all because they didn’t apply for […]
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“Roots 2”: Waves of migration reach Santiago
In recent years, attention in Europe on migration issues has been focussed on the wave of refugees heading towards their frontiers, forgetting that this phenomenon is also occurring on other continents on a large scale.
José Vieira, the hidden pains of being a migrant
Fleeing the Portuguese dictatorship with his family in 1965 shaped his desire to investigate the interior and exterior reality of emigration. He speaks about the shame of being forced to leave your roots for economic and political reasons. When politicians criminalize migrants, while permitting their exploitation, film must speak out. […]
Latin American identity: diaspora and recognition
. They are formed in the convergence and divergence of Latin American culture with different cultures. This relationship with the “other” is simultaneously of acceptance and rejection. The diasporas have to invent their own identity which is different from the old identity.
On the roofs of La Candelaria
The people of this neighbourhood in Bogota and the nomadic tourists observe, by surprise, when they look up into the sky, the figures in glass and latex of Jorge Olave. Armando Orozco Tovar This neighbourhood, old and located in the centre of the capital of Colombia, is […]















