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 and used aggressively towards you?
Now in paperback, this is a collection of pieces from 21 black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, exploring 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 and doesn't truly accept you, however many generations you've been here... but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.
