This anthology gives fictional and fictionalised voice to UK migrants of both recent time and the more distant past. The sixteen stories gathered here, penned by sixteen different writers, weave a tapestry of disparate tales. Migration to the UK is a story that goes back to Roman times and beyond. More recently the British Empire connected colonised countries to the ‘mother country’, two world wars saw substantial European populations settle in the UK and the expanding European Union brought further migrations. Now, as the globe shrinks, modern armed conflict, natural disasters and global economic imbalances have had their impact on every national of the world, including Britain.

Publication date: 2009