The essays are poignant, challenging, funny, sad, heartbreaking, polemic, angry, weary, and, most importantly, they give a platform to some of the most interesting BAME voices emerging in the UK today. Compiled by award-winning writer Nikesh Shukla - who has long championed the issue of diversity in publishing and literary life in the UK - this book will explore why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay, what it means for their identity if they're mixed race, where their place is in the world if they're unwelcome in the UK, and what effects this has on the education system. In these essays about race and immigration, they paint a picture of what it means to be 'other' in a country that wants you, doesn't want you, doesn't accept you, needs you for its equality monitoring forms and would prefer you if you won a major reality show competition. The Good Immigrant brings together twenty emerging British BAME writers, poets, journalists and artists to confront this issue. It's a hard time to be an immigrant, or the child of one, or even the grandchild of one. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Yet, studies show that throughout the UK, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are much more likely to live in poverty than white British people (Institute of Race Relations). The Good Immigrant - Kindle edition by Shukla, Nikesh. We're told that we live in a multicultural melting pot - that we're post-racial.
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