Slang is used both to stereotype minority communities, and used by minorities to assert their own identity, as the changing usage of ‘wetback’ illustrates. N.O.R.A. raps: “Todos mis amigos en el block ahora stand up”. A light-hearted account of the traps and the humour arising from learning a foreign language. […]
Migrants
Old immigrant stories: Gabriela Quevedo
It is 2014. As a champion of immigrants’ rights and a committed feminist and activist Gabriela thinks Latin American unification is important though having a critical vision about those processes already underway its vital to ensure its success. Virginia Moreno Born in Venezuela she first completed a course […]
When we immigrants ‘classify’ each other
As immigrants the last thing we want is to be also discriminated against by other immigrant groups, because we have enough with the ‘British natives’. But that is the truth: we immigrants are discriminating against each other. Monica del Pilar Uribe Marin The fact that the Latin American […]
Resistance and peace
A white cow is not a white dove, says Eduardo Embry, a Chilean poet based in the UK. A gracing pristine cow is heavy, and the meaning of peace is not to appease or to be appeased. By contrast, peace is not a given, but an ongoing process of understanding […]
Old immigrant stories
Veronica Camacho* is a woman who, like many others, was arrested in the middle of the street and transported to several detention centres, including Yarl’s Wood. She says she was mistreated. It is 2014. Virginia Moreno Molina After more than three months at Yarl’s Wood detention centre, a […]