Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
Continuing the family history, he graduated as a teacher but decided to emigrate to the United Kingdom to seek out the opportunities denied to him in his homeland. Sonia Gumiel Teacher, musician and heating technician, Carlos was born in Málaga (Spain), where he lived all his life until […]
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 […]
With a Lebanese surname, she was born in São Paulo, Brazil, but embarked years ago on an adventure that led her to live in Mexico, Spain and England. Sonia Gumiel Marta always liked England, although the grey weather bothered her and she thought she could never live in […]
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.
Emigration is not just a question of adapting to life in a new country but also of having to deal with feelings of guilt, loneliness, homesickness, frustration and expectation.
Billions of people have poured their hope for the future into a new life in another country and continent. They emigrate following their dreams, in the hope of finding their place within a society different to their own.
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