Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
The media is responsible for the promotion of significant attitudes and feelings like acceptance, tolerance and interest in other cultures. But the media is also responsible for promoting discrimination, racism, lack of solidarity, fear, rejection, and xenophobic attitudes.
According to a recent ‘shock poll’, more than half of London’s women don’t feel safe on the streets, and a similar number believe that the city has become less safe in the last five years. Despite the headline’s phrasing, these findings will not come as a surprise to London women. […]
These films primarily focus on immigration politics, migrant labour, indigenous organizing, and extractive economies in the U.S. and Central America. Abla Kandalaft / Mydylarama* The UCLA Film Archive just announced that 7 activist documentaries that are now freely available to access and stream for students, academics, and others. […]
Their stories merge within a context of a rising xenophobia in the Western world. Theay 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.
When political and media discourse dehumanises the immigrant or obscures their reality, an alternative perspective is urgently needed. This “Special Edition on Migration” brings together independent media that address the diaspora with rigour and context. A journalistic endeavour, necessary in the face of growing anti-immigrant sentiment.
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