I am an Immigrant - Podcast Preview

Welcome to I am an Immigrant - a weekly podcast series where I talk with people who used to live somewhere else and now live here, in the UK. I’m Christine Bacon, an Australian of Irish descent who moved here 15 years ago. Most of us have a picture in our mind when we hear the word ‘immigrant’. Mostly, us so-called foreigners are framed as victims or villains, or on the flip side, we are the inspiring heroes or the ‘model citizens’ making a ‘contribution’. The truth is (don’t tell anyone) we immigrants are mostly people who live regular lives, subscribe to streaming television services, work in a variety of jobs, socialise with friends, fall in and out of love, say and do stupid things and pick our kids up from school.
This podcast is not about getting into the immigration debate. We’ve had decades if not centuries of that mostly toxic conversation. We won’t talk about which migrants are good and how many is too many. Whatever image appears to you when you hear the word immigrant, I offer you this podcast to transform that picture into something way more interesting.
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Supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Edited by Helen Clapp
Cover art by Ada Jusic