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 and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and – most importantly – real.

It won The Indie Book Award for fiction and was the winner of The Peoples Book Prize 2022. Nikesh Shukla Chimene Suleyman The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America Kindle Edition by Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Chimene Suleyman (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition 271 ratings Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience. The title itself is tongue-in-cheek, calling attention. In 2021 Canongate published her highly acclaimed debut novel 'Mrs Death Misses Death'. The Good Immigrant USA follows the publication of The Good Immigrant in 2016, which comprised pieces from 21 British writers of colour. 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 and 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'?īringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and 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. Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Good Immigrant, read by the authors.

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