A 4000 Km journey between Lisbon and Senegal several times a year in an old Peugeot 504 demands many practical and social skills as well as courage and determination. A journey across cultures through multiple racisms by a 62-year old Senegalese man which challenges Western stereotypes about migrants.
Multiculture
Slangs: speak up for your raza
Slang is used both to stereotype minority communities, and used by minorities to assert their own identity, as the changing usage of ‘wetback’ illustrates. N.O.R.A. raps: “Todos mis amigos en el block ahora stand up”. A light-hearted account of the traps and the humour arising from learning a foreign language. […]
Old immigrant stories: Gabriela Quevedo
It is 2014. As a champion of immigrants’ rights and a committed feminist and activist Gabriela thinks Latin American unification is important though having a critical vision about those processes already underway its vital to ensure its success. Virginia Moreno Born in Venezuela she first completed a course […]
When we immigrants ‘classify’ each other
As immigrants the last thing we want is to be also discriminated against by other immigrant groups, because we have enough with the ‘British natives’. But that is the truth: we immigrants are discriminating against each other. Monica del Pilar Uribe Marin The fact that the Latin American […]
Resistance and peace
A white cow is not a white dove, says Eduardo Embry, a Chilean poet based in the UK. A gracing pristine cow is heavy, and the meaning of peace is not to appease or to be appeased. By contrast, peace is not a given, but an ongoing process of understanding […]