Relocating means more than just living in another country. It is about coping with a change where you lose almost everything you own and encounter a new culture that you don’t know, and that doesn’t know you. Sanity and insanity waver dangerously. Taylor Zambrano A Colombian woman flees […]
Multiculture
Irene Almacha: Looking ahead
Irene Almacha moved from Ecuador to Spain when she was a young adult. She then moved to London about six months ago. Not all stories about moving to a new country or a big city are success stories. Some have happy endings and others just have endings. For Irene, […]
Natalia Copercido: “Migrant people make migrant friends”
The 34 year-old from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has always wanted to move abroad. A year and a half after migrating to the UK to be with her boyfriend, Natalia is now living out her dream. Michelle Gooden-Jones Before moving to London, Natalia Copercido admits that in her […]
Juan Carlos Piedra, a leader by conviction and action
“I long to see my community, visible, strong and fully integrated in English society.” There are few examples like the one of Ecuadorian Juan Carlos Piedra in London. After his arrival at the English capital in 2002, one of this cleaner’s objectives was to organize the Ecuadorian community in London, […]
Refugees and borders
This text is written when domestic and international pressure seems to be weakening the UK conservative government’s hard position towards refugees as in recent hours information has emerged about an announcement that Cameron might give soon. Mabel Encinas Up to recently, the only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the conservative […]
















