Immigration is a complex issue, and it is the media which principally constructs the image of immigrants, and consolidates stereotypes. Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín The media is responsible for the promotion of significant attitudes and feelings like acceptance, tolerance and interest in other cultures. But the media […]
Migrants
“Not without my family”… an immigrant’s battle in England
How long can a mother be forced not to see her children? One year and two months was what the Mexican and British governments made Jael Deyssy De la Luz endure. A hunger strike and a continuous and tireless fight made a reunion possible. Virginia Moreno Molina “When […]
José, my homeless friend
We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we discover in the empty spaces of our lives that the time we should have given to our lost friend has slipped away.
José Pais: Whores and mothers in Braganca
A rich and sensitive sociological analysis of the intersections of sex and money, in the contexts of traditional family expectations and the conflicting desire for freedom in a rapidly changing world. Mothers on both sides of the conflict; male bonding and male secrecy.
In the UK: ‘Third generation migrants’ or simply ‘British’?
They were born in the United Kingdom to parents who were children of those that came in search of a better life overseas. Having lived here their entire lives with better skills, more opportunities, higher levels of economic resources and a detachment from their grandparent’s homeland, can they still be […]