‘If you ask me whether I feel British and how I identify, I would say I identify as confused,' says Anna Blasiak. 'When I go to Poland, I feel British; when I'm in Britain, I feel Polish.' 

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Claudia Lopez-Prieto recalls the trauma of leaving Colombia aged eleven and how she tried to recreate her homeland in Croydon. 

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Daniel Otu Vortiah Ahiankui, who was born in Spain to Ghanaian parents, recalls a transformation when he arrived in the UK. He was an extrovert who became introverted. 

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Dulani Kulasinghe, who has experienced double migration after leaving Sri Lanka, registers that 'more open conversations in the UK about racism and empire have led to a massive backlash, maybe the last gasp of the beast'. 

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The Namibian forensic psychologist Tulela Pea turns a critical eye on the credits and deficits of life in the UK. 

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The poet and playwright Nick Makoha recalls his dramatic escape from Idi Amin's reign of terror in Uganda. 

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Gabriela Raluco Andriesi recalls leaving Romania, finding the freedom to be with her partner in Scotland and joining the police force 

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Neethu Sathyanathan reflects on leaving Kerala in India to come to the UK, and taking to the stage, after five years, to try and make English people laugh. 

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The Yugoslav-born film director Mira Erdevički talks about how she came to the UK by accident and has stayed for thirty years. 

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Sonia Bell describes how early on when she moved to the UK, she hardly ever encountered British people. 

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