Thousands of Latin Americans in the United Kingdom survive as cleaning workers in academic institutions. A film shows their precarious working day and the indifference of students and university directors. Their struggle for dignity reveals the cracks in the neoliberal model in education. (The Prisma memoirs) Virginia Moreno Molina […]
Migrants
Reverse migration: the new Latin American dream
Six out of ten second-generation Latin American young people in the UK want to return to their parents’ homeland. It is not nostalgia, but strategy. Development in the south and Europe’s crisis are rewriting the migrant narrative. Ramón Lafée The language, the residency papers, adapting to a different […]
Muslims through the UK media’s selective lens
Islamophobia is sweeping across Britain. Attacks represent a real minority of recorded incidents, yet they dominate press headlines and public perception. The same violent act is labelled terrorism when committed by an Islamist, but hate crime when it targets a follower of that faith. Two standards, one reality. (The Prisma […]
Teaching survival: A classroom in the chaos
In Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, 800 untrained teachers manage classes of up to 200 children. Volunteer Casey Pearson is transforming education through teacher training, language programmes and classroom management techniques, offering hope amid one of the world’s most prolonged displacement crises. Deborah Torr Imagine that today is the […]
An immigrant mother crossing borders for her son
A story to remember. Karol arrived in Bristol after Spain’s economic crisis prevented her from working as a teacher. Years later, following the end of her relationship, the custody dispute over her younger son intensified when Rafael took the boy to Spain and he subsequently went missing during a visit. […]
















