Despite facing long hours, cultural challenges, and family separation, César’s aspirations stretch beyond the UK, fuelled by a longstanding dream. Harry Allen César, 59, is nothing short of a model citizen. He works relentlessly for up to 16hours a day in the gig economy, rarely taking breaks, keeping […]
Profiles
There are visas and asylum visas: An unconventional migration journey
Saiba Haque’s early adulthood has been defined by her various encounters with the Home Office, few of them positive. Her life in the United Kingdom on a student visa changed drastically when she became an asylum seeker. Now she’s finally been granted leave to remain – via an unexpected route. […]
Finding home in the in-between
Jiyan* was born two weeks after their Kurdish parents arrived in the UK in search of asylum. As a non-binary person with Kurdish heritage who has only ever lived in Britain, their life is one lived in and between currently available categories of nation and gender. Mizy Judah Clifton […]
Not feeling comfortable in the English capital
At 26 years old, she has lived half of her life outside of Colombia. With her mother she emigrated to Valencia and later on, with her partner, to London. She was born in Pereira, but only spent her childhood and part of her adolescence there. This routine was interrupted […]
Immigrant and activist with his heart in his home country
Bolivian *José A. arrived in the English capital years ago. He left Bolivia in search of satisfying his own curiosity regarding the changes those who emigrated experienced in their financial situations. _ Javier Duque “What it would take you years to earn in Bolivia, you could earn elsewhere in […]