Mum and me: a story of immigration and integration | Podcast

Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty, the son of two Indian immigrants, explains why he felt so frustrated with a recent report from Tony Blair’s thinktank. And Katharine Murphy looks ahead to Australia’s imminent election

Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty recently read a report from Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change. It was called The Glue That Binds: Integration in a Time of Populism and in it, a foreword – written by the former prime minister – stressed that immigrants had a duty to “integrate, to accept the rules, laws and norms of our society.” Aditya felt depressed and frustrated that the same language was being used about the immigrant experience today to that which had been used when his mother first arrived in the UK in the 1960s.

Anushka Asthana discusses with Aditya his mother’s experience of arriving and building a life in the UK, and his own childhood, where he experienced racism.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VxDXRW