After hospitality training, he settled in the United Kingdom hoping to find quick work. He applied at over fifteen restaurants without success and started waiting tables. Weeks later, when one cook left, he asked to cover her role and remains there. He values stable pay, though he does not plan […]
Profiles
Immigrant stories: Between homesickness and a tight budget
Without asking his parents for a single euro, Jose has managed to get by financially despite the high cost of living in the British capital. Although he misses his family and is considering returning, he would not rule out staying if a job matching his career comes along. Javier […]
A Bolivian in London: building, cleaning and activism
He arrived in 2007 to master English and found precarious jobs. Cleaning humiliated him, so he became a self-employed builder. His past as a university protester in Bolivia stays with him. London, he says, is already feeling too small. _ Javier Duque “What it would take you years to […]
A migrant journey shaped by work and study
Having left Ecuador for Spain as a five-year-old, Verónica found herself emigrating again 17 years later. She now lives in south London, studies English alongside her cleaning job and plans to go to university, while recalling both the opportunities and difficulties faced by Latin American migrants. When Veronica was only […]
A young Frenchman discovers London his way
Immigrant stories. Studying remotely, sharing a flat with French and Italian housemates and speaking English at home are all part of Rene Cars’ experience in London. At 23, this is not his first stay abroad, but it is an opportunity to improve a language he considers important for his professional […]
















