Refuge and race

The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil, Katherine Jensen, 2023, The University of Chicago Press

It is the truth that nations dare not speak when they open their arms with such public fanfare to the world’s wretched: asylum is clearly not colour blind.

This has obviously been the case in countries like the UK where, in a climate in which immigration has become a political bone of contention . . .

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Categories: Brazil, International, Middle East & North Africa, South America, Syria

Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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