Youth in Asia

Your heart pounds. Your palms sweat. You’ve done nothing wrong, but you still feel guilty. Like a criminal. We’ve all felt it, as we approach Border Control, even if we’re… “legal”? Haven’t we? Or is it just me? And people who look like me? In this post-Brexit age of ‘No Small Boats’ and heightened xenophobia, entering the country triggers one man’s reflections on his journey to a new country and the privileges that he was able utilize along the way. Yet these privileges only exist because of his parents’ much more difficult immigration journey, and our hero contemplates why anyone leaves one home to create another, and what it takes to survive and thrive in a new world.