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Category: Insights by OCC
Migrant Children Under State “Care” in Ceuta and Melilla: A System Void of Protection
This third article of the series exposes the inhumane conditions faced by minors who are under state care in Ceuta and Melilla, the enclaves of Spain.
NEGLECTED & UNPROTECTED : THE CASE OF UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT MINORS IN THE CANARY ISLANDS
This second article of the series exposes the inhumane conditions faced by minors who arrive alone on Europe’s most dangerous migration route to the Canary Islands. s
Trapped Under Plastic: Youth, Precarity, and the Price of Cheap Food
In this latest series of Insights by OCC, we are looking at the situation for migrant people at Spain’s borders. Beneath the plastic-covered greenhouses of southern Spain, thousands of migrant workers live in makeshift settlements without basic services or legal protection.
This article explores the hidden cost of intensive agriculture in Andalucía, where labor demand, housing precarity, and the neglect of unaccompanied minors expose deep structural inequalities.
A Lost Paradise: Identity Quest from the Palestinian Diaspora
Continuing our series of Insights by OCC, in this second article we explore the relationship that Palestinian displaced youth, born and raised in refugee camps or in diaspora, have with Palestine and their sense of identity. We will retrace how their sense of belonging to Palestine can be constructed through three different voices, while providing an overview of the situation of Palestinian refugees in different Arab countries.
Colombia: when peace and conflict coexist
What is going on in Colombia after the election of a historically leftist government?
Did the peace agreement really bring a stop to violence in the country? Is there hope for the new government? Nelly and Lucía, two Colombian women who migrated to Spain, tell us their stories to help us get closer to the reality of Buenaventura, a port on Colombia’s Pacific coast. A place full of contradictions, that summarises many of the main issues of the country, where prosperity and poverty clash into violence, but where the potential of a future Colombia can already be perceived.
