Government’s pursuit of people without identity papers has made the immigrant community fearful going to work. They do not know that they can refuse to show papers. The Prisma Memoirs. Olga Briasco At the entrance to one of the London Tube lines, police from the Home Office are […]
Migrants
“They are united by war, we must be united by peace”
This is the view of Dagoberto Gaitán Vargas, a Colombian immigrant who had to go into exile to find political asylum in the United Kingdom, where he has lived for over two decades. The son of coffee producers, born in the rural area of Tolima and with a life of militancy behind him, he has a political and social perspective on Colombia, observes the past and looks toward a future of hope. “Immigrants and activists in the UK”.
Immigrants in the UK: Embracing multicultural differences
Finding a balance between the ways of one and the other is a complicated task. If customs vary, so to speak, in every home, imagine what happens between towns, between countries or, as we will try to analyse below, between communities as disparate at first sight as the Latin and […]
Immigrants and criminalization of human rights
Despite the fact that historically, the greatest number of immigrants have been Europeans, today they are doing all they can to block the entry of those whose identities they stole. (The Prisma memoirs) Virginia Moreno Molina The European colonisation of South America is something that stands in conflict […]
Challenges of raising Latin American children in the Diaspora
In the troubled wake of the United Kingdom riots a couple of decades ago people were shocked, angry and wanted to hold someone responsible. Due to the surprise at how young many of the rioters, much of the blame predictably landed on the parents for an “inability to control their […]