Emigration is not just a question of adapting to life in a new country but also of having to deal with feelings of guilt, loneliness, homesickness, frustration and expectation.
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Divorce is illegal but migrant work is like prison
Filipina women who migrate without professional training sacrifice their social lives to support families back home, while the men often find similar restrictions when they work on ships. The re-enactment of Magellan’s death at the hands of Lapu-Lapu’s warriors is a part of Philippine culture expressed in traditional theatre.
Living the anguish and fear of being detained
Neither the fact that his papers were being processed nor his mobility problems were enough to stop this Venezuelan being detained for nearly 4 months in a detention centre for immigrants in the United Kingdom. Here he describes the raids, the scant medical attention and the tricks of the Home […]
Stories of Latina women, immigrant and undocumented women
On the street corners of Brooklyn, men and women from other countries wait for hours in the hope of finding a job. They’ll do anything. Up to and including putting up with the exploitative conditions that unscrupulous impresarios, knowing they don’t have ‘papers’, that they’re ‘illegal’, will subject them to. Division Ave grasps and reproduces this reality.
Revolution in the making: reshaping global media power
On 5th November, the organisation Media Revolution will announce a landmark stage in its movement to radically change the power balance from the broken global media system to one that works in favour of people and planet: the creation of a Media Consumers Union. Media Revolution It’s part […]
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