Yadin Londono was 9 years old when he travelled to England from Colombia. Since then he has made Britain his home; it is his children’s motherland and where he has spent almost his entire life. However, 40 years after his arrival he now potentially faces deportation.
“How can they punish me and my family when I’ve already paid for what I did?”, he asks.
Multiculture
Spanish speakers in China… beyond cultural difference
Despite the impact of globalisation and the Belt and Road, the Hispanic population remains little compared to people from the English speaking world or other Asian countries. However, this does not impede them from exploring this unknown oriental nation. Yi ZOU In recent years, the connection between China […]
Detainees I – Becky, twice detained: a migrant in Yarl’s Wood
After six years living in the United Kingdom, she was detained for five and then seven months. This is the story of a Cameroonian woman who saw people die in detention and gives her account to The Prisma.
A Latino behind bars: José’s detention
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.
“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 […]