Accommodation and full board in exchange for looking after children; millions of young people arrive in London from all over the world with this exact purpose. She came from Cuba, passing through Spain on the way, she is an Au Pair and she intends to stay here. When […]
Profiles
Beatriz Angarita: “I have not been able to acquire a taste for London”
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 […]
Cesar Barragán: professional in Ecuador, cleaner in London
Demoted, young, integrated and hard-working: this is the Ecuadorian community living in the UK, and this is how some of its members see themselves. Cesar Barragán makes up part of one of the smallest Latin communities settled in the UK. The Office of National Statistics estimates that in 2010, […]
Gunter Silva: “In London no one stops to lend a hand”
In a collection of short stories, Peruvian writer Gunter Silva brings together the experiences of Latin American immigrants through the characters depicted in his tales, set in the British capital. Benjamin Serra Originally from Peru but having lived in London for eight years, Gunter Silva Passuni is a […]
The end of war doesn’t mean peace for women and girls
“They don’t hit you for being tall or short, stupid or intelligent, educated or illiterate….They hit you for being a woman”… These words reflect the life of many people. Ramón Alabau “They grabbed me, threw me on the ground and threw themselves on top of me. I even […]















