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From Colombia to the UK: a mental health journey
Nancy Liscano has more than 20 years of experience working with Latin American immigrants in the mental health field. Originally from Colombia, her journey was marked by socio-political violence and today, working with different NGOs, she provides comprehensive therapeutic support to families in the diaspora. Her commitment, training and solidarity have marked her experience in the United Kingdom.
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From the newsroom to the cinema: An alternative source of immigrant news
Legacy media is not offering anything new: intellectual regression, increased privatisation, reduced grant funding, and less editorial freedom. Abla Kandalaft, a Lebanese journalist, and founder of Mydylarama, picked up on this and took action. Her work in film curation is changing the way British cinema audiences connect with immigrant narratives.
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Using journalism to change the immigrant narrative
The Prisma begins a new series called “Journalists and immigrants in the UK”, to explore what it’s like to work and own a media outlet in a country that is not your own. Juliana Da Penha is our first interviewee. She is the founder of Migrant Women Press and has experienced the shadow of stigmatisation of migrants.
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A Latino immigrant dedicated to empowering migrants
Arriving in the United Kingdom 35 years ago from Colombia, Carlos Corredor, delves into his experience of migrating to what he referred to as “the new world” and the inner frustration endured in adjusting to the array of cultural differences. He is the director of a health service for Latin Americans and devotes his time to helping the diaspora .
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Third-generation diaspora: to be or not to be
In comparison to their grandparents and parents who may not have felt completely at home in Britain, accepted that they were different, and in some cases even expected to be discriminated against, third generation migrants are more likely to stand up to racism, push for equality and fight against discrimination.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 1 day agoPaco de la Coba, a Spanish journalist, arrived in the UK at the age of 23 and noticed that the Spanish
- 1 day agoIn an open public lecture, University College London professor, Claire Lindsey, will speak o n the impact
- 1 day agoThis phenomenon threatens to undermine the EU’s competitiveness, exacerbate labour shortages, inflate
- 1 day agoCataclysms affect the population as a whole but are particularly harsh on workers, commonly the people most
- 1 day agoA year-long touring programme featuring films exploring the childhoods of Black girls, made by Black
Multiculture
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A Spanish media for the Spanish-speaking diaspora in the UK
13/05/2024Paco de la Coba, a Spanish journalist, arrived in the UK at the age of 23 and noticed that the Spanish diaspora did not have its [...] -
From Colombia to the UK: a mental health journey
13/05/2024Nancy Liscano has more than 20 years of experience working with Latin American immigrants in the mental health field. Originally [...] -
Multiculturalism: a social process and a political weapon
06/05/2024Immigrants did not cause the economic crisis, they spend most of their time trying to survive, in some cases after being forced [...]
- A transient shadow in London’s underside
- An Iranian immigrant’s journey to atheism and secularism
- From the newsroom to the cinema: An alternative source of immigrant news
Latin America
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Jorge Glas’s unlawful and random arrest
13/05/2024Last week, intellectuals, artists and politicians from several countries released a letter calling for the immediate release of [...] -
Hate rallies in ‘dreams of peace’
29/04/2024After the demonstrations against Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, on 6 March this year, I noted in a column that three [...] -
In Central America “El Niño” hinders access to food
29/04/2024In the Central American region, due to the effects of this climatic phenomenon, some 4’092,000 people may need assistance, [...]
- Fujimori, back on the political stage?
- In the labyrinth of a very one-of-a-kind Congress
- Poverty and inequality affect Latin American women
Culture
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Cinema capture and celebrates Black girlhood
13/05/2024A year-long touring programme featuring films exploring the childhoods of Black girls, made by Black filmmakers, began last 11 [...] -
Literary realism
13/05/2024Terry Eagleton is a literary critic you can trust. He has read everything, his judgements are invariably sound and his humour is [...] -
Fashion for everyone
06/05/2024Milan, the capital of European fashion, is the city where Daniele Tamagni was born in 1975. “Style is life”, a celebration of [...]
- A political utopia
- A photographic memory of Palestine before the Nakba
- The resurgence of Central American cinema
Workers
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Immigrants at sea (2): Developing internationalist trade unionism
29/01/2024It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about [...] -
A decade for immigrant and vulnerable workers
22/01/2024Grassroots, independent, bilingual and defending the rights of workers in precarious employment, especially migrants and those [...] -
Immigrants at sea in a precarious labour market (1)
22/01/2024In London there are workers of more than 100 nationalities, including native Britons, in precarious conditions. Migrants are [...]
- When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
- Immigrant workers: racism and work harassment
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
United Kingdom
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A Spanish media for the Spanish-speaking diaspora in the UK
13/05/2024Paco de la Coba, a Spanish journalist, arrived in the UK at the age of 23 and noticed that the Spanish diaspora did not have its [...] -
Roaming feminisms in Latin America, the other revolution
13/05/2024In an open public lecture, University College London professor, Claire Lindsey, will speak o n the impact of ‘women [...] -
Europe is ageing in the 21st century
13/05/2024This phenomenon threatens to undermine the EU’s competitiveness, exacerbate labour shortages, inflate public budgets and [...]
- Climate emergency puts workers at risk
- Cinema capture and celebrates Black girlhood
- Beyond the religion: Atheism in Iran’s society and its diaspora
Lifestyle
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Networks of love and hate, especially hate!
26/06/2023Violence motivated by hate speech towards vulnerable groups is rampant on social media, despite the rejection of many people. A [...] -
Re-founding Honduras to re-found education
05/09/2022A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have [...] -
Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...]
- The virus cannot kill education
- Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
- Latin-American youth: a life marked by violence
Strugles
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No to the economic war against Cuba
25/03/2024On 15 March 2024, supporters of RATB protested outside the offices of London resident and DCD Rights’ Head of IT Mickael Behn [...] -
Family court collusion with violent fathers
11/09/2023There are devastating impacts of family court orders on mothers and children who had fled domestic violence and/or child abuse. [...] -
Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
31/03/2023The streets of Paris have become the scene of police repression, attacks on the press and popular resistance. Reports of police [...]
- “Stronger as one”, against the climate crisis
- A crash course to conflict
- Disabled people to protest over deaths and neglect in the NHS
World
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Climate emergency puts workers at risk
13/05/2024Cataclysms affect the population as a whole but are particularly harsh on workers, commonly the people most exposed to the [...] -
Beyond the religion: Atheism in Iran’s society and its diaspora
06/05/2024The rise of atheism in Iran post-Islamic Revolution is multifaceted, influenced by historical, social, cultural, and political [...] -
Grassroots resistance in Palestine
06/05/2024Interviews with Palestinians aiding grassroots resistance to occupation. Palestinians have a history of grassroots organising to [...]
- Peace: between local wars and a third world war
- Women, the main victims in places of conflict
- Poverty and inequality affect Latin American women
Sports
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Maradona, a universal Latin American
30/11/2020Of Diego Maradona, many things can be said. A restless and therefore multifaceted man, he was not just a football player and [...]