Every generation faces a different challenge. And this is certainly true for British children of Latin-Americans who wish to return to the country of their parents. Ramón Lafée The language, the residency papers, adapting to a different culture; these are just some of the difficulties that the previous […]
Migrants
José Pais: Prostitutes and mothers in Bragança
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. (The Prisma memoirs) Graham Douglas […]
The loneliness and grief of the immigrant
Migration is a social fact and consequently, it affects the whole of society. It is a process that creates change for those who emigrate, for those who accept immigrants and for the families who stay behind in the native country.
Immigrants do favour host countries
Around 22.1 million displaced people remain across the Latin America continent as of the middle of 2023. This figure in Latin America and the Caribbean represented approximately a third of all the new individual asylum applications in the world. This is revealed by new studies from the United Nations […]
Overcrowding, the biggest problem of Latino immigrants
45% of the Latin American immigrant community living in London are not happy with their living conditions. Their biggest problem is overcrowding. The Prisma’s memoirs. _ Miriam Valero Maritza* is a 37 year old Bolivian, born in Cochabamba. After living in Spain, she decided to travel to the UK […]