He arrived with limited savings and only three months to secure employment. The city tested his ability to adapt until an opportunity at a renowned practice transformed the course of his professional career. (The Prisma memoirs) Eugenio Blanco This young architect strolls across the millennium bridge, looking at […]
Multiculture
Teacher by training, driven abroad by opportunity
After facing obstacles to pursuing a teaching career in Spain, he moved to south-west England. There he found employment opportunities, stability and a more favourable environment in which to build the professional future he seeks. Sonia Gumiel Teacher, musician and heating technician, Octavio Solaz* was born in Málaga […]
The invisible immigrant cleaner dismissed over a carton of juice
An immigrant woman who worked as a cleaner was fired for “theft and gross misconduct” from her job at a warehouse in Erith, to the south-east of London. Her union has initiated legal proceedings arguing for discrimination. Pablo Muñoz Tobeida Cruz is a 60-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant in the […]
How a diagnosis changed a Colombian immigrant’s life
Ana Ramos arrived in London from Colombia when she was eleven. She quickly felt at home but would discover she had ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia years after having to retake her A-levels twice. With her diagnoses, she graduated from university and has worked as a paralegal and across the civil […]
Net migration falls by 50% but the right still drives the narrative
Net migration falls by fifty per cent but voters continue to be fooled by right-wing media obsession. The latest migration figures released by the Office for National Statistics tell a story that cuts directly against years of political rhetoric, sensationalist headlines and culture war panic amplified by sections of the […]
















