She came for six months and has stayed fourteen. She studied Audiovisual Communication and Photography, though her trade now runs along other channels. She will not return without stable employment. Among compatriots she has raised a small Spain that sustains her far from home. (The Prisma memoirs)   Laura came […]

She left Brazil for love, spent a year in Mexico and twelve in Spain, where she gained citizenship. The crisis shattered her stability and led her to England. There she found her home in Bristol: a son, a second family and the conviction that life is one’s surroundings.   Sonia […]

When she left her native Argentina for Covender in 2015, she never imagined that five months without work or command of the language would test her confidence. Today, while studying English and raising Astor, she seeks to belong without losing who she was.   Sonia Gumiel   She is a […]

She arrived on the Isle of Wight in 1991 to learn English and find work. Since then, she has worked in hotels, factories and schools, married, had two children and built her life in Henley-on-Thames. Yet Spain remains central to her plans for the future.   Sonia Gumiel   A […]