Anna came to Lincolnshire from Poland expecting to stay for three months. Twenty years later, she is helping other migrants make a life in Boston. Opportunity brought many others. Their stories offer a glimpse of how a Lincolnshire town has changed, and how it is learning what it means to become more diverse… “The Prisma Series: Lincolnshire transformed by migrants”.
Migrants
Mexican and migrant identity in the heart of Brixton
He has come from Mexico, raised a family and for the last year, has run a restaurant in Brixton. He believes that the arrival of more Mexican immigrants to London will strengthen their community. It is his skin colour, his moustache and his accent in particular, that give him […]
London, the refuge of a wandering generation
She came for six months and has stayed fourteen. She studied Audiovisual Communication and Photography, though her trade now runs along other channels. She will not return without stable employment. Among compatriots she has raised a small Spain that sustains her far from home. (The Prisma memoirs) Laura came […]
Immigrant blood: putting down roots in foreign soil
She left Brazil for love, spent a year in Mexico and twelve in Spain, where she gained citizenship. The crisis shattered her stability and led her to England. There she found her home in Bristol: a son, a second family and the conviction that life is one’s surroundings. Sonia […]
Mother and migrant: a new life far from Buenos Aires
When she left her native Argentina for Covender in 2015, she never imagined that five months without work or command of the language would test her confidence. Today, while studying English and raising Astor, she seeks to belong without losing who she was. Sonia Gumiel She is a […]
















