Isabelle Dupuy, whose family is originally from Haiti, describes why she first resented paying taxes in Britain till an epiphany about the country's social care and social cohesion that was enabled by the National Health Service

Clementine E Burnley reflects on why she wants her money back from the British romantic novelists she read in her youth in Cameroon

Snežana Ćurčić reflects on leaving Serbia to coming to the UK, and how she has come to admire British culture

Marjorie Lotfi recalls fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 and how she eventually settled in Scotland where she is celebrated for her poetry

Maria Jastrzębska reflects on moving from Poland to the UK as a child in the 1950s

Colin Grant kicks off a new series, an oral history of migration to Britain, What We Leave We Carry. A group of WritersMosaic writers travel around the country recording the stories of migrants pioneering new lives here.