The actor Anni Domingo, who returned from Sierra Leone to the UK as a teenager, recalls being told at an audition that she was too dark. ‘And that was it,’ says Anni. ‘I never opened my mouth. I never sang. I never danced.’

Uprooted from the former Yugoslavia, Almir Koldzic doesn't have a place that he can really call back home.

Adïam Yemane recalls her shock of arrival in Britain and discovering women no longer wore Victorian dresses and garments.

Robin Paine eventually settled in Edinburgh having experienced the shock of moving from Kenya to London where she felt completely invisible.

‘I will be very critical of this place, always, of empire, of their political history, of the way it behaves towards the rest of the world, but,' says Miguel Hernando Torres Umba, 'I do feel a massive level of appreciation for this place.’

Sheila Lam recalls her first impressions of London: 'It can be a really scary place, and scary things are happen. I'm not blind to that, but my personal day-to-day life has been so wonderful.'

Tamara Zimet arrived in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and feared she'd made a terrible mistake.

More than forty years after moving to the UK from Ireland, Ross Fitzsimons is still haunted by the plight of the teenager Kevin Barry who was executed by the British government during the Irish War of Independence.

Eric Ngalle Charles recalls how he came to the UK under an assumed identity, and with the passage of time, he has reclaimed his true name.

Colm Tohill recalls growing up during a time of violent conflict in Northern Ireland with a mix of stoicism and dark humour.