Language Isolation on the Migrant Trail

By Charlie Bentley, under the supervision of Kim Wilson

I connected to most migrants I interviewed using the same first casual topic: “I’m struggling to get around without Spanish. What about you?” Despite having the help of two Spanish-speaking colleagues, I still found that traveling through Colombia without Spanish language skills was an immense challenge.

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