Friday, 19th January 2018
'Has it changed as a city? There are more homeless people on the streets.'
Sunday, 7th January 2018
'I still don't understand the barriers of not allowing people to work, not allowing people to flourish.'
Sunday, 7th January 2018
'I've noticed in Glasgow people are just genuinely kind'
Friday, 6th January 2017
'I was really surprised, I suppose, at the identity crisis that Scotland was going through.'
Wednesday, 24th August 2016
‘Everything that I’ve written has almost always been in English. I’m just now coming to reconnect with the Danish language.’
Friday, 15th April 2016
'She said, 'Well, we know that you've got a British passport 'cause your father is British, so you can either leave or we're going to the police'.'
Thursday, 7th April 2016
‘Love is that. You can’t say the person is ugly, which religion, which race, you can’t say it.'
Thursday, 25th February 2016
‘The way I was brought up was that honesty was more important than politeness. So that was a hard lesson to learn once I arrived in the UK.'
Wednesday, 10th February 2016
'Glasgow for me is like anchovies. First you might not like it, but as you taste more it grows on you'
Thursday, 11th February 2016
'I used to wear dreadlocks and they were removed, and one of the judges turned around and said that it's not me in the photos.'
Saturday, 5th December 2015
‘I have no roots here at all, but we have a kid now. The kid is from Scotland.’
Wednesday, 16th December 2015
'My father flew to England and left my mother with four children to travel from Australia to England on a cargo ship for eight weeks.'
Tuesday, 19th January 2016
'Through voluntary jobs I met a lot of people. A lot of them are good friends and life is much better now.'
Monday, 8th February 2016
‘I’d often joke and say ‘Well the Brits stayed for 200 odd years, I’m just returning the compliment!’’
Thursday, 4th February 2016
‘I get two set questions. One is ‘Where are you from?’ and then the second one is ‘Why don’t you sound like where you’re from?’’
Thursday, 4th February 2016
'If you have money for war, I'm sure we have money to build houses and accept as many people as we can'
Sunday, 10th January 2016
'What I heard from Maori people and Maori activists that I met was ‘Don’t come to us, look to your own ancestry to fill the gaps'
Friday, 8th January 2016
'I live a neighbourhood that there is a lot of poverty, and for me this is strange to see in one of the wealthiest countries'
Friday, 8th January 2016
'If we also move and another person comes, and they do the same to them, when will it stop?'
Monday, 4th January 2016
'My mum should be a Scot in many ways because she has that kind of 'get on with it' attitude'
Thursday, 3rd December 2015
'I have realised I'm stronger than I thought at the beginning'
Wednesday, 25th November 2015
'There's a lot of talk of immigration at the moment, and people often don't realise that I'm one of the 'baddies''
Friday, 27th November 2015
'I already had two places I could call home, but I never felt at home in either of them'
Thursday, 15th October 2015
'To be honest, I think of myself as European and a Glaswegian more than I think of myself as a Dane'
Tuesday, 3rd November 2015
'I would love it if Glasgow could be educated a bit. Just a bit.'
Sunday, 30th August 2015
‘Sometimes I feel like I’m in Naples in Italy, because the people are very similar’
Thursday, 29th October 2015
'That first year in Glasgow was the worst year of my entire life. Not even the communist past in Poland became so painful in my memory.'
Saturday, 19th September 2015
‘Let’s be honest it’s not like London, but it’s definitely better than Edinburgh’
The Settled in Glasgow Oral History Archive (SIGOHA) is an online collection of conversations with people who have settled in and around Glasgow having been born outside of the UK. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers: KALINA BOYTCHEVA, EUAN REILLY, VLADYSLAV MEDVENSKY, CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL, ANNE MADSEN, NADIA STUART, KATHERINE MACKINNON, SVENJA TIMMINS, ZHADA ROBERTSON, JOEY SIMONS and NICOLA HERD for helping to transcribe our conversations. We had an exhibition! Read more here: https://thetempohouse.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/review-sig-oha-glasgow-anew-pipe-factory-glasgow/
JESSE LAWSON is an audio producer, sound designer and community facilitator. To get in touch, visit jesselawson.me