Sandra spent portions of her life in Peru, Spain and Germany before moving to the United Kingdom to aid her professional and creative development. Sonia Gumiel At 27 years old, Sandra considers herself to be the perfect age to live in a city like Bristol, a place that […]
Migrants
Karin Trujillo: her home is anywhere in the world
Having always wanted to live in an English speaking country, she ended up studying translation and interpreting, first in France and then in England, where she has lived since 2014 in the city of Reading. Sonia Gumiel A Latin American born in Peru, Karin Trujillo decided to study […]
Why do I feel the shame of failure?
What are the effects of ‘shame’ on Caribbean families? I believe that this powerful emotion is perpetuated by the dysfunctional family structures that exist there, such structures being themselves directly caused by the deliberate humiliation visited on the imprisoned Africans by the slavers and their plantocratic masters. Nigel Pocock […]
An illegal immigrant
She travelled from the Middle East when she was fifteen. She’s now twenty-eight, and has lived under the immigration radar in London ever since. Steve Latham She came, she told me, by truck, train, car, van and boat, all the way. She was a victim of, what we […]
UK third generation migrant: “Immigrants are stigmatized”
Growing up as a third generation migrant in the UK, with origins from the Caribbean and Africa, I have become aware of Britain’s racial divides. Despite being labelled ‘British’, I sometimes feel out of place in the country I was born.
















