Trained in Baghdad and marked by war and exile, Sadiq Toma transforms ancient Sumeria into an intimate territory. His paintings, sculptures and calligraphy weave together childhood, loss and mythology to reimagine how civilisations converse and what endures when everything seems to fade. (The Prisma Memoirs) Shanta Sultana Living in […]
Multiculture
“I learned to be Bolivian here”: A life of exile and resistance
She arrived in Europe fleeing Argentina’s crisis, ended up undocumented in London and spent more than a decade dodging immigration raids. After securing her papers, Ángela Camacho fully embraced her Bolivian heritage and turned it into political, community and family activism. Her story reveals both the costs and the resilience […]
Letters from prison: a Latino’s experience in the UK
The anonymous testimony of a Latin American detainee in Pentonville and Brixton reveals negligence, mistreatment and the violation of basic rights. His account shows how the lack of information, linguistic isolation and official indifference worsen the punishment beyond the sentence itself. A few years ago, Gilberto Ariza* wrote his […]
The truth about forced migration and the myth of ‘legality’
Enforced migration is not what happens when an immigrant chooses to travel and decides to make the crossing to a foreign country, with a different language and culture. Virginia Moreno Molina Migration is: ‘The geographical displacement of individuals or groups, generally for economic or social reasons.’ But there […]
The other migration: a Latino community still unseen
Between hard work, displacement and optimism, a portrait emerges of a community striving to integrate, confront exploitation, and keep its identity alive in a United Kingdom that still sees them from a distance. For social, economic and/or political reasons, they decided to emigrate. You can hear them on the street, […]
















