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What We Leave We Carry
Anne Tristine Nguyen
Anne Tristine Nguyen recalls her remarkable journey from a slum in Saigon, Vietnam to a Scottish castle.
Dagmara Rudkin
Dagmara Rudkin recounts how she left Poland as a teenager and was prepared to work all the hours she could to pay for her education.
Abha Sharma
Abha Sharma confides that she is undecided as to whether she would prefer India, the UK, or neither of those as her home.
Steve McCoy
When Steve McCoy moved from Malaysia to the UK as an A-level student in the 1970s, he thought of it as a homecoming.
Andrea Antonieta Schroeder
Moving from Chile to heal a broken heart
Lynda-Marie Taurasi
Lynda Marie Taurasi answered the ancestral call to return to Scotland when she migrated from the US.
Claudia Rivera Echevarría
Claudia Rivera Echevarría on diluting her Puerto Rican vitality while living in the UK.
Eve Grubin
Eve Grubin recalls aspects of a shared common language that foxed her when she moved from the US to the UK
Yu Yie
YuYie and her challenging transition from Thailand to the highlands of Scotland.
Anouk
Anouk, who was raised in Paris by Jewish parents from Algeria and Tunisia, talks with great affection about her community and recalls that she has felt less scrutinised in London than in Paris.
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