Krupa Mehta reflects on leaving Chennai in India, going back briefly where she met the man who became her husband and her decision to return with him for a new life in the UK.  

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Lisa Munga reflects on living in transit and coming to terms with a sense of absence in her life after leaving Cameroon. 

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Hassan Alia remembers the shock of arrival as a refugee from Syria and his dream of becoming a surgeon. 

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The Serbian writer Goran Gocić reflects on his feelings about the UK, similar to those you might have towards 'an old girl friend you don't want to stumble upon'. 

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Fang Wang reflecting on leaving China, speaks of her fondness for big-nosed Englishmen and the joy of the crosses on the Hot Cross Bun. 

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Denisa Gannon reflects on her irrepressible desire to escape prejudice in the Czech republic to become a pioneering Roma lawyer in the UK. 

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Amanda Villanova talks about coming from Puerto Rico for a drama course and her decision to stay on and build her life in the UK. 

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Amaal Said talks about feeling Somali without ever having been there. 

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Suzanne Harrington tells the story of why she had to leave her repressive homeland in Ireland in the 1980s. 

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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. 

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