The Good Immigrant

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How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you`re most fitted to play is `wife of a terrorist`? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated & used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go `home` to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ` Other`? Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian & minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, the Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay & what it means to be `other` in a country that doesn`t seem to want you, doesn`t truly accept you
- however many generations you`ve been here
- but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms. Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants
- job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees
- until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over & become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary &
- most importantly
- real.