When I was young, I remember very well the racism of the Argentines. A friend of mine from Rosario highlighted this racism in the following example: An porteño (a resident of the capital Buenos Aires) told his friends that he was going to travel to South America as if Buenos Aires was surrealistically still a part of Europe.
Month: July 2018
La Colectiva: Statement on Trump’s and Putin’s summit in Helsinki on July 16
La Colectiva is a group of Latin American poets and artists residing in Finland. Their names are Martina Miño, Roxana Crisologo, Rosamaria Bolom y Ana Gutieszca. For more information about La Colectiva, visit their page here. La Colectiva es conformada por cuatro poetas y artistas latinoamericanas residiendo en Finlandia. Sus nombres son Martina Miño , Roxana Crisologo…
Where is the outcry for the Danish government’s assimilation plans of migrant children?
Denmark’s xenophobic and especially Islamophobic government plans to regulate by law the life in 25 low-income Muslim neighborhoods. The message is clear and should cause outrage but we have not heard a humble finger lifted by the European Union about the government’s forced assimilation plan.
Rafal Rada Mousa: A good ending to a long uncertain journey from Iraq to Finland
Rafal Raad Mousa, 18, whose former pseudonym on Migrant Tales was Saboora,* is a very happy young woman together with her family. After a three-year wait in Finland, Rafal and her family of two brothers, sister, and mother were granted a residence permit.
Thailand versus the Mediterranean: Your human value hinges on ethnic and cultural background
We have all been reading about the rescue operation in northern Thailand raises a question: Why so much media interest in the fate of twelve children trapped for sixteen days when between 23,000 and 28,500 of people have perished in the Mediterranean during 1993-2018 while trying to travel to Europe.
Institute of Race Relations: Police database spreads institutional racism
The IRR welcomes Amnesty International and The Monitoring Group’s recent reports on the racially discriminatory nature of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Gangs Matrix intelligence database.