Poor healthcare, detainees abused by the guards and a system that “breaks your heart” are part of the things this Cameroonian woman lived while being detained in the UK. “It’s people who have been tortured, who are gang raped in their countries”, she explains.
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The Congolese salon d’exile in Rio de Janeiro
Using the motif of seven haircuts, a new film gives voice to Afro-Brazilian migrant stories and the similar inequalities in the two continents. The background is neo-colonialist exploitation by multinational companies, and privatizing Petrobras was also on that agenda. Like Europe, Brazil is racist, “but we don’t lock up refugees”. […]
The sharks are circling
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is famous in the US but not well known outside North America. None of his paintings are displayed in a UK public collection and this makes compelling the current exhibition at The National Gallery. The exhibition’s book details his work and life. Sean Sheehan Homer […]
Bitter fruit: labour exploitation in Andalusia
Every year, thousands of Moroccan women move across the sea to Huelva in Andalusia, Spain for the soft fruit picking season. Often selected because they are widows or divorcees, the women arrive to find exploitative conditions including poor pay and accommodation. Ethical Consumer The city of Huelva is […]
Źiźek… Space travel
Reading Źiźek can feel like a journey into a galaxy of ideas but a pictorially more exact image is that of visiting a solar system with a multitude of thoughts orbiting a radical understanding of existence. Sean Sheehan Reality, it is insisted, lacks any substantial coherence and this […]
















