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 […]
Migrants
Haruki Murakami, between realism and the dreamlike
Surely on this occasion the surrealist writer did not spill his morning coffee when he heard a speaker on the radio talking about his birthday, as was the case last time. Ariel B. Coya Unlike last time, he now knows with certainty – to his regret – that […]
Migrant… your status depends on where you come from
Migration is: ‘The geographical displacement of individuals or groups, generally for economic or social reasons.’ But there is no word for forced migration in the dictionary. Virginia Moreno Molina That is because enforced migration is not what happens when an immigrant chooses to travel and decides to make […]
Mental health & immigrants: surviving in a new country
Relocating means more than just living in another country. It is about coping with a change where you lose almost everything you own and encounter a new culture that you don’t know, and that doesn’t know you. Sanity and insanity waver dangerously. Taylor Zambrano A Colombian woman flees […]
Refugees and borders
This text is written when domestic and international pressure seems to be weakening the UK conservative government’s hard position towards refugees as in recent hours information has emerged about an announcement that Cameron might give soon. Mabel Encinas Up to recently, the only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the conservative […]