Personal stories from immigrants about their experiences, struggles, successes, and how they’ve adjusted to new cultures. These could be short written pieces, or you could adapt interviews into text.
Someone once said to me, “Oh, you’re that rich, huh?” and I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me. It happened not long after I moved to Germany. I was out with colleagues,… Read More »Six Months with Women I Never Expected
“Mum, I needed that.” My youngest said this to me in the car, and I wasn’t expecting it. I’d just picked her and her sister up from a casual meetup with Start With a Friend… Read More »Start With a Friend
Abir tells me about the second week like she’s back in that moment when everything changed. “The second week actually was when I discovered that I am alone in a country. I don’t know no… Read More »The Second Week
Before Suaad made phone calls in Germany, she’d open Google Translate and literally write down the entire conversation like a script: what she needed to say, what they might ask, how she’d respond. That’s what… Read More »She Had No Way Back. So She Built Something Forward
My daughter asked me today if I regret leaving Nigeria. Not in those exact words. She didn’t come out and ask directly. Instead, she started talking about a friend who just moved to the UK,… Read More »The Red Pill
It started with someone defending Britain’s role in the abolition of slavery, talking about how they “paid a high price” to free enslaved people (yes, we’ve covered that irony already). And then, as expected, someone… Read More »“But Africans Sold Africans Too”
The way we see the world is shaped by what we hear and read. Whether it’s on the news, social media, or TV, the stories told about migrants influence how people think about immigration, policies,… Read More »How Media Stereotypes Shape African Migration
The house was quiet, but the weight of the decision hung heavy in the air. The father, an accountant who had spent years climbing the professional ladder, sat with his hands clasped tightly, staring at… Read More »The Cost of the UK Dream
Wissen Sie, erst neulich habe ich über die britischen Remigrationsmärsche nachgedacht und versucht, die Dinge aus ihrer Perspektive zu sehen und mich in sie hineinzuversetzen. Aber heute bin ich mit etwas aufgewacht, das mir dieses… Read More »Gefälschte Tickets für Abschiebeflüge im Briefkasten?
You know, just the other day, I was reflecting on the UK marches for remigration, trying to see things from their perspective and empathize. But today, I woke up to something that knocked that empathy… Read More »Fake Deportation Tickets in Mailboxes?
