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 […]
An immigrant from Lisbon to Portugal
London… This Portuguese cook feels very comfortable in a city populated by people of different nationalities, a city that is tremendously multicultural. Javier Duque Born in Oporto in 1986, Pabo knew for some years that he wanted to come to live in the UK, so he arrived in […]
Brexit as seen by an immigrant
Despite concrete evidence to the contrary, right wings parties from all over the world always play the “immigrants are stealing our jobs” card. I witnessed a clear example of that during the 2016 Brexit referendum. Leavers based their entire campaign on immigration. Nathan Raia In 2015, Italy was […]
















