Immigration is a complex issue, and it is the media which principally constructs the image of immigrants, and consolidates stereotypes. Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín The media is responsible for the promotion of significant attitudes and feelings like acceptance, tolerance and interest in other cultures. But the media […]
Migrants
“Not without my family”… an immigrant’s battle in England
How long can a mother be forced not to see her children? One year and two months was what the Mexican and British governments made Jael Deyssy De la Luz endure. A hunger strike and a continuous and tireless fight made a reunion possible. Virginia Moreno Molina “When […]
Latin Americans who work as cleaners and are invisible
Their work starts before sunrise when the classrooms are still empty. Whilst universities teach about values and rights these workers come and go unseen shrouded under a cloak of invisibility born of the stigma businesses and institutions attribute to the word ‘cleaners’ who for their part are generally exploited and […]
José, my homeless friend
We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we discover in the empty spaces of our lives that the time we should have given to our lost friend has slipped away.
José Pais: Whores and mothers in Braganca
A rich and sensitive sociological analysis of the intersections of sex and money, in the contexts of traditional family expectations and the conflicting desire for freedom in a rapidly changing world. Mothers on both sides of the conflict; male bonding and male secrecy.
















