Anna Blasiak

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Dagmara Rudkin recounts how she left Poland as a teenager and was prepared to work all the hours she could to pay for her education.

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Abha Sharma

7天之前

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Abha Sharma confides that she is undecided as to whether she would prefer India, the UK, or neither of those as her home.

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Steve McCoy

14天之前

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When Steve McCoy moved from Malaysia to the UK as an A-level student in the 1970s, he thought of it as a homecoming.

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Andrea Antonieta Schroeder

21天之前

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Andrea Antonieta Schroeder left Chile and moved to the UK with a broken heart to try to forget a man with whom she was in love.

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Lynda-Marie Taurasi

28天之前

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Lynda-Marie Taurasi always felt Scottish and, in migrating to Edinburgh from the US, she felt she was fulfilling an ancestral need to return.

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Claudia Rivera Echevarría

5 weeks之前

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Claudia Rivera Echevarría on how she sometimes unconsciously dials down her Puerto Rican vitality while living in the UK.

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Eve Grubin

6 weeks之前

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Eve Grubin was so affected by the differences she found in the English language when she relocated to London from the US that she wrote a poem about them, 'American in England'.

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Yu Yie

7 weeks之前

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YuYie and her challenging transition from Thailand to the highlands of Scotland.

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Anouk

8 weeks之前

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Anouk, who was raised in Paris by Jewish parents from Algeria and Tunisia, talks with great affection about her community and recalls that she has felt less scrutinised in London than in Paris.

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Anna Blasiak

9 weeks之前

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‘If you ask me whether I feel British and how I identify, I would say I identify as confused,' says Anna Blasiak. 'When I go to Poland, I feel British; when I'm in Britain, I feel Polish'

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Claudia Lopez-Prieto

11 weeks之前

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Claudia Lopez-Prieto recalls the trauma of leaving Colombia aged eleven and how she tried to recreate her homeland in Croydon.

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Daniel Otu Vortiah Ahiankui

12 weeks之前

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Daniel Otu Vortiah Ahiankui, who was born in Spain to Ghanaian parents, recalls a transformation when he arrived in the UK. He was an extrovert who became introverted.

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Dulani Kulasinghe, who has experienced double migration after leaving Sri Lanka, registers that 'more open conversations in the UK about racism and empire have led to a massive backlash, maybe the last gasp of the beast.'

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Tulela Pea

14 weeks之前

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The Namibian forensic psychologist Tulela Pea turns a critical eye on the credits and deficits of life in the UK.

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Nick Makoha

15 weeks之前