A Spanish filmmaker and sound engineer, immersed himself in Ethiopia’s diverse music scene. His documentary ‘Roaring Abyss’ emerged from spontaneous travels, capturing rural sounds distinct from urban jazz. Despite language barriers and challenging expeditions, he built a production team and discovered Ethiopia’s welcoming musical community. (The Prisma memories) Yi […]
Migrants
Divorce is illegal but migrant work is like prison
Filipina women who migrate without professional training sacrifice their social lives to support families back home, while the men often find similar restrictions when they work on ships. The re-enactment of Magellan’s death at the hands of Lapu-Lapu’s warriors is a part of Philippine culture expressed in traditional theatre.
Living the anguish and fear of being detained
Neither the fact that his papers were being processed nor his mobility problems were enough to stop this Venezuelan being detained for nearly 4 months in a detention centre for immigrants in the United Kingdom. Here he describes the raids, the scant medical attention and the tricks of the Home […]
Stories of Latina women, immigrant and undocumented women
On the street corners of Brooklyn, men and women from other countries wait for hours in the hope of finding a job. They’ll do anything. Up to and including putting up with the exploitative conditions that unscrupulous impresarios, knowing they don’t have ‘papers’, that they’re ‘illegal’, will subject them to. Division Ave grasps and reproduces this reality.
Diaspora and recognition vs. anti-immigrant narrative
Recognition is, ultimately, the recognition of an individual as a citizen with full rights. The electoral gains of the ultra-right with its anti-immigrant discourse and ability to charge the domestic agenda and front pages with the need to cut immigrant rights, do not suggest a very promising outlook. But under […]
















