The young Ecuadorian came from Spain to escape the economic crisis that the Iberian country is facing. She currently works as a cleaner and is studying to improve her English. When Lisbeth was only five-years-old she and her family migrated from Quito, the capital of Ecuador, to Spain in […]
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Should drugs be decriminalised?
Between the ages of eleven months and seven I grew up in Henleaze, a small suburban community located on the outskirts of Bristol’s centre. Ben Stupples My family and I lived in a semi-detached house of average size that separated us from our neighbours with wafer-thin walls, and […]
Prostitution in the UK (I): Poverty, the driving force
It has become the only option for many women, but discrimination and prosecution are the only ‘solutions’ thrown at this problem of poverty and gender. César Amaya Sandino In the United Kingdom around 70% of women in prostitution are single mothers who do not receive social benefits. Welfare […]
Frida Kadlec: “Things are going well in Germany”
After more than 6 months in London, this 23 year-old German woman believes she is adapting to “a very fast-moving city”. Javier Duque After spending last summer in her country, Frida felt the moment had come to move on, so at the beginning of October she took an […]
Geraldine Reyes: “Every month I send money to my family”
Her name seems Latin American or Spanish but she is from the Philippines, aged 34, and arrived in London in 2009, after escaping from Dubai, where she worked previously. Javier Duque When someone comes from a poor family or doesn’t have enough to enjoy life, as is often […]
















