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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.
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The Koguis want no more wars and no more ecocide
They say that besides giving material life so that the world can wake up each day, in their spiritual testament Siana Mung and Siukukui gave responsibility to the Older Brothers to advise the Younger Brothers so as not to make wars, kill people nor clear the forest. But Younger Brothers never listen to them.
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The loneliness and grief of the immigrant
Migration is a social fact and consequently, it affects the whole of society. It is a process that creates change for those who emigrate, for those who accept immigrants and for the families who stay behind in the native country.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 4 days agoHe is one of those immigrants who advocate for the identity of Latin Americans to be recognised and made
- 4 days agoThere are armed conflicts in different parts of the world that have cost hundreds of thousands of lives,
- 4 days agoAfter the demonstrations against Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, on 6 March this year, I noted in
- 4 days agoWomen and girls trapped in poverty are more likely to die prematurely due to lack of adequate health care,
- 4 days agoIn the Central American region, due to the effects of this climatic phenomenon, some 4’092,000 people
Multiculture
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Jacobo Belilty: revealing the invisible Latino community in the UK
29/04/2024He is one of those immigrants who advocate for the identity of Latin Americans to be recognised and made visible at the public [...] -
Using journalism to change the immigrant narrative
29/04/2024The Prisma begins a new series called "Journalists and immigrants in the UK", to explore what it's like to work and own a media [...] -
When there are first and second class immigrants
22/04/2024Enforced migration is not what happens when an immigrant chooses to travel and decides to make the crossing to a foreign country, [...]
- A Latino immigrant dedicated to empowering migrants
- Immigrants: When the first stop is the worst nightmare
- Dreams of a gig-economy migrant worker
Latin America
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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?
29/04/2024The betting of the power factors could lean towards the former Peruvian president, despite the fact that he is the object of [...]
- In the labyrinth of a very one-of-a-kind Congress
- Poverty and inequality affect Latin American women
- Child starvation, one of Guatemala’s ugly faces
Culture
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A political utopia
22/04/2024“The State and revolution” was written by Lenin in 1917, after events in February had overthrown the Tsar but before October [...] -
A photographic memory of Palestine before the Nakba
15/04/2024The Nakba, the dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians by Israelis in 1948, in the words of Mohammed El-Kurd “breathes down [...] -
The resurgence of Central American cinema
08/04/2024The major film showcase will be held at The Garden Cinema in London, celebrating culturally driven innovative art and music, with [...]
- Antigone’s monstrous protest
- Celebrating 30 years of Viva! Latin American cinema
- Lenin, Gaza and Ukraine
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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Jacobo Belilty: revealing the invisible Latino community in the UK
29/04/2024He is one of those immigrants who advocate for the identity of Latin Americans to be recognised and made visible at the public [...] -
Peace: between local wars and a third world war
29/04/2024There are armed conflicts in different parts of the world that have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, genocides, millions 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 [...]
- Women, the main victims in places of conflict
- In Central America “El Niño” hinders access to food
- When there are first and second class immigrants
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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Peace: between local wars and a third world war
29/04/2024There are armed conflicts in different parts of the world that have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, genocides, millions of [...] -
Women, the main victims in places of conflict
29/04/2024Women and girls trapped in poverty are more likely to die prematurely due to lack of adequate health care, especially if they [...] -
Poverty and inequality affect Latin American women
22/04/2024Most of them suffer from a lack of access to and remuneration for care, political polarisation and gender-based violence. [...]
- Neoliberalism, racism and xenophobia vs. immigration
- “Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
- The battle among colonial powers to divide up the world
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 [...]