Acknowledgements

Thanks so much to:

The Secret Cabal.

Nikesh: Thank you to everyone at Unbound, especially Rachael and John, for supporting and championing this project; all the contributors, Katie, Niven Govinden, Julia Kingsford and Charlie Campbell, Sarah Shaffi, Melissa Cox, Candice Carty-Williams, Harpreet Purewal, Elaine Wong, everyone at Watershed/Rife Magazine, Sam Asumadu and Henna Butt from Media Diversified (especially for publishing an earlier version of Darren Chetty’s essay), Sunny Singh, James Smythe and Will Wiles, Nerm and Sangna Chauhan, Anita Rani, Josh Idehen, Nimer Rashed, Sam Binnie, Sharan Dhaliwal, Josie Long and Neil Griffiths and everyone at Arts Emergency.

Extra special thanks to Chimene Suleyman, Rosie Knight, Inua Ellams and Musa Okwonga for level heads and emotional support.

Vera: Thank you to Haruka Abe, Julie Cheung-Inhin, Shera Chok, Kathryn Golding, Catriona James, Jennifer Lim, Diana Ly, Anna Sulan Masing, Rani Moorthy, and Caroline Teo for talking to me as I mulled over the intersection between East Asianness and gender. Thank you Daniel York for being a champion, and James for the support. Love to GS, CAG, SLF, JT, LS and TWH..

Inua: Thanks to Siyanda Moutsiwa.

Ming: Thanks to Katy Lee, Jackie Tang and Viki Cheung, Katy’s friend Vera, Jiaqi Hou, Jun Kit Man and Cohan Chew from The BC Project, Paul Courtenay-Hyu, Nina Crisp, Kim Liu Leach, Rebecca Yip, Professor Yaojun Li, Louie Stowell, Jeremy Curtis, Katherine Webber, Kevin Tsang, Alice Sutherland-Hawes, Manisha Matharu, Kwaku Osei-Afrifa, Joelyn Rolston-Esdelle, and Jasnam Channe. Final thanks to my family and to Liz Wawrykow.

Kiran: Thanks to Bally Yates.

Riz: Thank you to Bilal Qureshi, Farrah Jarral and Anya Raza.

Daniel: Thank you to Jennifer Lim and Elaine Wong.

Sarah: Thank you to Haleem, Rabia, Ishwarlal, Tarla, Hanif, Meena, Amina, Samie, and Roxanne for standing by my side and believing in me. I’d also like to thank my friends and masala chai for keeping me going.

Musa: For my parents, the two immigrants who gave me everything they had.

Bim: For Ade, who is the reason I am a writer.

Darren: Thanks to Samantha Asumadu and Media Diversified. Thanks to Judith Suissa, Sam Berkson and Bréanainn Lambkin for helpful comments on my writing. Thanks to Steve Cockett, Geoff Fox and Steve Williams for encouraging me to share my stories. Thanks to the primary school children who have shared their stories with me. Special thanks to Rageshri Chetty, for her love, support and inspiration.

Miss L: Thanks to T, my mum, dad and nan.

Chimene: Always, Mum and Dad. And the Turkish Cypriot community who have more strength than they are ever recognised for.

Nish: Amy Annette, Jack Barry, Tez Ilyas, Sara Pascoe and whoever made the ‘Confused Muslim’ meme.

Himesh: Thank you to the friends I’ve made since the beginning of my career for feeding my soul and showing me a world beyond my front door – I’d still be naïve and clueless without you. Thank you to my sister for setting the stage, to my dad for his silent wisdom, to my mum for putting love above all else and to all three of them for opening the window and giving me the faith to leap through.

Coco: Thank you to Beena for making me, and Stephen for rating me (enough to get me writing).

Salena: Thanks and love to my Mum, to my elders and cousins, and my mixed up immigrant family. Thanks to my Dickie. Thank you to Nikesh and all the crowd funding Unbound comrades for making this extraordinary book happen.

Vinay: Thanks for my grandparents for putting my hardships into context and loving me before I was even born.

Varaidzo: For my siblings.

Thank you to immigrants, the children of immigrants, relatives of immigrants, friends of immigrants, employers of immigrants, and anyone who made a journey from there to here, and opened the world up in the process. This is for you.

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