On the street corners of Brooklyn, men and women from other countries wait for hours in the hope of finding a job. They’ll do anything. Up to and including putting up with the exploitative conditions that unscrupulous impresarios, knowing they don’t have ‘papers’, that they’re ‘illegal’, will subject them to. Division Ave grasps and reproduces this reality.
Multiculture
Maher Harb, wine and Beirut
Attracted by Lebanon’s potential as a wine-producing region and nostalgic for his homeland, Maher Harb left a consultancy firm in Paris, fixed up a disused family farm and recently launched his first vintage, which he aims to market to Europe.
Sandra Mendoza: Being creative in England
Sandra spent portions of her life in Peru, Spain and Germany before moving to the United Kingdom to aid her professional and creative development. Sonia Gumiel At 27 years old, Sandra considers herself to be the perfect age to live in a city like Bristol, a place that […]
Why do I feel the shame of failure?
What are the effects of ‘shame’ on Caribbean families? I believe that this powerful emotion is perpetuated by the dysfunctional family structures that exist there, such structures being themselves directly caused by the deliberate humiliation visited on the imprisoned Africans by the slavers and their plantocratic masters. Nigel Pocock […]
An illegal immigrant
She travelled from the Middle East when she was fifteen. She’s now twenty-eight, and has lived under the immigration radar in London ever since. Steve Latham She came, she told me, by truck, train, car, van and boat, all the way. She was a victim of, what we […]