The Breakfast Podcast

What I am going to talk about in today's episode has already happened in Germany and Ireland: indiscriminate attacks against migrants. I haven't seen anything like this since the first migrant people arrived in Spain via the Canary Islands. I feel that something against human rights has been brewing since 2016, but migrants are taking the brunt of it due to the unprecedented violence.

"Abilities Within Me" is a wonderful children's book series and foundation created by Gemma Keir, inspired by her son with 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome. This book helps raise awareness about disabilities, celebrate diversity, and foster empathy and inclusion from childhood (for children aged 3 to 8). Its illustrated stories sensitively address conditions such as Autism, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Cyst...

Talking about La Isleta is talking about worker struggle, dignity, and the sea. But it is also remembering the harsh footprint of Francoist repression that struck hard at the residents of this emblematic neighborhood.

Let's not throw our hands up in horror: being a migrant doesn't strip you of your prejudices. We already see how they look down on other migrants, people of another ethnicity, and even those without resources

"The Diary of Piete Kuhr" aka " Diaries of the Great War "is the autobiographical testimony written by Elfriede Alice "Piete" Kuhr (1902–1989). Due to her political activism, her open opposition to persecution, and the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, she had to flee Germany to escape being sent to a concentration camp (like many of her socialist and activist friends). She took refuge in Zurich, S...

Even 94 years after the rise of the Nazis, we continue to wonder why a people as cultured as the Germans ended up falling into the clutches of hatred. Well. Not all of them. Was there opportunism or conviction?

There are always people who, being completely innocent, pay the consequences. It already happened to the Japanese population, but what about the Japanese born in the USA? Yes. They found themselves incarcerated in concentration camps, when Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, empowering the military to designate exclusion zones.

Hoda Thamir Jehad, a young Iraqi woman who was 18 years old at the time of the US-led invasion of her country in March 2003, belonging to a cultured and moderate family of lawyers, journalists, and teachers, was born on October 11, 1985, in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq.  She began writing a personal diary just as the fighting started and missiles began falling on Baghdad, hoping that putting words on...

Remembering the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Causes: the context of World War II in the Pacific and the United States' decision to force Japan's surrender. Consequences: massive devastation, hundreds of thousands of deaths from blasts and radiation, and the dawn of the nuclear age. Never again. Peace and historical memory for the world. 

In Spain, the population of migrant origin is divided as follows, according to official records and the most recent analyses: -Foreign population with legal residency: Exceeds 7.4 million people (according to the INE Continuous Population Statistics), representing the vast majority of those with a regularized administrative status in the country. If a broader count is taken of all persons born abr...

Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq is a critically acclaimed book co-edited by Zlata Filipović (best known for Zlata's Diary, written during the siege of Sarajevo) and writer/researcher Melanie Challenger.  

The historical significance of the street lies in the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936, a landmark confrontation in which local residents, trade unionists, and anti-fascist demonstrators successfully blocked a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.

Unaccompanied migrant minor centers are specialized facilities dedicated to the protection, basic care, and social integration of foreign children and adolescents who arrive in a country without their parents or legal guardians, focusing on legal assistance, language learning, and preparation for adult life.

"Zlata's Diary" was written by Zlata Filipović, a young girl who documented her daily life during the Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo between 1991 and 1993. She began the diary at age 10, addressing it as "Mimmy." Her entries start in a normal school environment and gradually transition to loss of electricity, sheltering in basements, food shortages, and the death of close friends due to bom...

This date might mean nothing to you or sound like a Eurovision song, but for many Ukrainians, it was their "annus horribilis". But no. I am not referring to the song, but to the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the regime of Joseph Stalin in May of that same year. For the population of Crimea and much of Ukraine, 1944 did not mean only the advance of the Soviet front against t...

Sixteen years ago—time flies—I ran a workshop in which I asked why a football player was considered a foreigner, whereas people arriving on wooden boats were labeled immigrants. The goal of the activity was to help people understand why we accept certain individuals and reject others, as was the case with Ukrainian refugees. But I will give you a clearer, more graphic example. During the Bosnian W...

Yes. I like writing. And this year I decided to go all out and sign up for every literary contest I saw. Needless to say, I lost them all, but it gave me an idea: to create a character that allows me to raise awareness about human rights through literature. My dream, if I manage to become a philologist, is to publish them.

Is it possible to give one’s life for others? In times of deep polarization and harsh dichotomies of "us versus them," those who cling to an ideal break this barrier, acting not for themselves, but for a greater common good The highest value always lies in the choice that maximizes global well-being and minimizes collective suffering.

It is fascinating how the perception of migrants works. Until not long ago, it was accepted that Germans, Britons, or Norwegians, well settled for years in the south of Gran Canaria, would establish themselves, and above all in isolation, like in colonies, and nothing happened because "they don't bother anyone." 

His poetry explores life, the passage of time, childhood, and mortality through energy-filled imagery. Thomas's narrative voice was not meant merely to be read; it was built to be recited aloud, turning every verse into a sonic ritual.

So how does a civilization lose its moral compass? It doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn't mean people suddenly lose their minds. It just takes someone clever enough to weaponize their deepest fears.

Sending migrants to a third country—known as border outsourcing—has become one of the most debated proposals in current migration policy. ​What does it consist of? A country transfers asylum seekers or irregular migrants to a third state so that it processes their applications or hosts them temporarily or permanently, in exchange for financial compensation or bilateral agreements.

During the Nazi regime (1933-1945), literature was subjected to a violent ideological purge. Under the concept of degenerate art, the Third Reich not only persecuted creators, but attempted to physically erase any thought contrary to its doctrine. What is outrageous, and even laughable, is that in today's Spain, city councils or social media backlash cancel or suspend plays. 

Today I bring you one of the most tragic stories from 1930s Germany. Otti Berger's story.  ​Otti Berger was a key figure in the Bauhaus weaving workshop, where she stood out not only as a brilliant student, but also as a materials researcher, patent designer, and professor.

If there is one thing that is not well understood, it is why descendants of migrants, or migrants themselves, are capable of expelling other people who decided to make the exact same choice: to seek a better life.