Neither the fact that his papers were being processed nor his mobility problems were enough to stop this Venezuelan being detained for nearly 4 months in a detention centre for immigrants in the UK. Here he describes the raids, the scant medical attention and the tricks of the Home Office to force deportation.
Multiculture
“Roots” … The Prisma series: We are all immigrants
In a global society characterised by the constant flow of people, the process of integration into another country brings many challenges. To emigrate and immigrate carries with it undue fighting, happiness, pain and circumstances in which you arrive at a place that is not your own. Marcella Via […]
Media and immigration in the United Kingdom
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 […]
“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.