In 2016 Voces Amigas de Esperanza (Voades UK) started in the UK and its purpose was, and still is, to support the Spanish and Portuguese speaking immigrant community and foster their emotional health. ‘Meeting and listening’ are the key tools of their work. They are an NGO of social […]
Multiculture
10 years of CLAUK: feeling, living and supporting Latino migrants
This coalition was established during a period when the UK adopted hostile policies towards migrants. Since then it has sought to help and make the community visible. In this Special Edition, The Prisma brings together the voices of CLAUK’s member organisations, highlighting the achievements, challenges and difficulties of Latino migrants.
Elderly migrants: when family home turns into jail
For years they have put all their efforts into supporting their family. Today, at their age, they don’t want public recognition for their work, they just want to be treated fairly and to have help in dealing with their health problems. However, what many elderly people actually receive is the […]
Immigrant workers: mistreatment in your own language
A large percentage of Latin Americans live with the daily psychological torture their superiors inflict on them. They are intimidated, insulted and treated with contempt. Sadly, in many cases this mistreatment takes place in their own language. Olga Briasco Many Latin Americans came to London a decade […]
Living your whole life between two cultures
She has spent the greater part of her life in France, but has brought with her to Stoke-on-Trent (England) the still recent emotions of having been finally reunited with her Chilean origins. Noelia Ceballos Terrén Carolina* has spent her whole life living between two cultures, but this was […]