Migration

A World That’s Slowly Slipping Through Our Fingers: An Interview with Joanna Elmy

Joanna Elmy on hate, home, and brands.

Leaping Seasons

Hongyu Jasmine Zhu on precious memories with her mother.

There Is Never One English

Deepa Rajagopalan on creating space at the centre.

Languages Learnt, Languages Lost

Sophie Lau on the complex relationship with her mother tongue.

Our Tongues Were Forked Along Lines of Migration

Janika Oza on language and migration.

The Hotel

Zainab Akhlaqi, after leaving Afghanistan. Translated by Zubair Popalzai.

Learning to Say Goodbye

Aissata Thiam, on five goodbyes.

I Did Not Make That Decision Out of Bravery

Awet Fissehaye responds to the proposed 'Illegal Migration Bill'.

Changing Tides

Bidisha Mamata responds to the proposed 'Illegal Migration Bill'.

There’s No Such Thing as an “Illegal Refugee”: A Conversation with Gulwali Passarlay

Gulwali Passarlay responds to the proposed 'Illegal Migration Bill'.

A Piece of Floating Coral: An Interview with Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Yassmin Abdel-Magied on identity and growing as a writer.

It’s More Complicated Than That…

Dina Nayeri responds to the proposed 'Illegal Migration Bill'.

I Am a Writer Because My Will to Understand People Is Greater Than My Need to Judge Them: Pajtim Statovci in Conversation with Octavia Bright

Pajtim Statovci talks to Octavia Bright about tricky protagonists, Albanian mythology and multilingualism

When a Country’s Soul Succumbs: Laws, Migration and Culture

The 2022 StAnza Lecture by Mona Arshi.

Remembering Partition

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Kavita Puri writes on partition, memory and exile.

Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed

Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience

Against labels

PEN Atlas Q&A: Mohsin Hamid

In the first in a series of author interviews about migration and otherness, we speak to novelist and writer Mohsin Hamid.

A conversation with Mohsin Hamid

'Even if you’re 75 years old and haven’t left the city you’ve grown up in, you have migrated through time. To me, it feels like the theme of being human is being a migrant.'

Not another diversity panel

The editor of The Good Immigrant on the creation of the book and bringing change to the publishing industry.

The European Mohammed and the Ignorance of the Educated

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winning author of The Iraqi Christ responds to the European refugee crisis.