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Documentary based on a compilation of several anonymous stories of migrants from Spain. The film shows a global reality from a very specific point of view: people who have decided to leave their home in Spain and move to Sheffield, a city in the north of England. Each story has its own peculiarities, each life is different, and at the same time, they all have aspects in common. The people interviewed are honest, expressing themselves openly, and expressing their dreams, their expectations, their fears... as if they were talking to a friend, and it is indeed a friend on the other side of the camera. It is time to listen, time to reflect.

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As one of London’s fastest growing migrant communities, Latin Americans make an essential contribution to how the city operates economically, socially and culturally. Yet only recently have Latin Americans begun to emerge from the shadows of invisibility as a population. While they are a diverse community, many end up having to work in low-paid jobs and live in poor quality housing because of their lack of English language skills, despite being very well educated. Yet in analysing two data sets of more established and more recently arrived Latin Americans, this research also shows that Latin Americans do integrate successfully as long as they receive support and recognition as a community.

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The audiovisual performance/installation We still fight in the dark’ was created as a response to the research We can’t fight in the dark - led by Professor Cathy McIlwaine between 2016-2018 in partnership with Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) (funded by the ESRC) - as one of the first research projects to gather data on the nature and types of gender-based violence experienced by Brazilian migrant women in London. Drawing from the academic evidence, Migrants in Action, a community theatre organisation, worked collaboratively with a group of 12 Brazilian women during eight creative applied arts sessions.Together they have produced a creative response to the alarmingly high levels of gendered violence experienced by Brazilian women.