There is street-level racism where you are subjected to racial attacks or racist language. But there is also institutional racism: in the education system, in the criminal justice system including the police, and the immigration system.
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A Bolivian in London: building, cleaning and activism
He arrived in 2007 to master English and found precarious jobs. Cleaning humiliated him, so he became a self-employed builder. His past as a university protester in Bolivia stays with him. London, he says, is already feeling too small. _ Javier Duque “What it would take you years to […]
Subcontracted and silenced in British lecture halls
Thousands of Latin Americans in the United Kingdom survive as cleaning workers in academic institutions. A film shows their precarious working day and the indifference of students and university directors. Their struggle for dignity reveals the cracks in the neoliberal model in education. (The Prisma memoirs) Virginia Moreno Molina […]
Ten years since a downfall that reshaped the right In Brazil
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff did not only bring down a president. The legislature expanded its influence, the far right became entrenched, displaced traditional conservatism and reached power with Bolsonaro. A decade later, Congress is strong, the right retains its strength, but Dilma resonates internationally and those who pursued her have lost relevance.
Reverse migration: the new Latin American dream
Six out of ten second-generation Latin American young people in the UK want to return to their parents’ homeland. It is not nostalgia, but strategy. Development in the south and Europe’s crisis are rewriting the migrant narrative. Ramón Lafée The language, the residency papers, adapting to a different […]
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