Angela, Janahan, Merwa, Michael, Mohamed, Nirmala, and Selamawit, are seven refugees who left their countries to search of safety in the United Kingdom. They survived the horrors of war and gender violence, but now face another threat: racism and xenophobia. Two women escaped from Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka, two of the worst world countries regarding Human Rights. All their stories merge within a context of a rising xenophobia in the Western world.
Migrants
War, exodus and demographic deficit
There has been a huge exodus of Ukrainians into neighbouring countries fleeing the war in their country: three million and counting. Just as in Syria and in other countries engulfed by war, there has been a refugee disaster. Michael Roberts But this latest exodus from Ukraine adds to […]
Immigrants: a hidden world in our own city
Migration is mostly to escape insufferable situations and to find better ones. A group of Senegalese men survive selling on the streets and beaches. Being so far apart from relatives and partners adds to their difficulties.
Double standards in handling migration crisis
In 2021, around 200,000 people tried to cross the borders of the European Union illegally. Today the war over Ukraine is generating another wave of migration and, curiously, the countries willing to take in those fleeing are the same ones that have been indolent in the face of a long-standing […]
Trafficking of migrants: silence and complicity
They cannot be called migrants, they are human rights survivors. We are accomplices to a massive crime, that sends thousands of innocent young people from across Africa to places where they meet their death. Mass rape is a tool for those in power.