From the archives: The struggle to be British: my life as a second-class citizen – podcast

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We are raiding the Audio Long Reads archives and bringing you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2017: After arriving in Britain as a child, I fought hard to feel like I belonged. Now it feels that the status of migrants like me is permanently up for review by Ismail Einashe. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Hannah Frankson, I'm a Peloton instructor and I teach classes on the Peloton
0:05.0	Bike and the Peloton Trud.
0:07.0	Nothing motivates me more than the thought of enjoying life to the fullest.
0:11.7	Life is always full with so many different challenges and chapters.
0:15.3	For me, movement and exercise has been there throughout every stage of my life.
0:19.0	Just living life to the max is what motivates me.
0:22.0	The Guardian Lives has partnered with Peloton to help you find motivation that moves you.
0:26.1	To find out more, visit thegardian.com board slash motivation with Peloton.
0:30.4	This message was paid for by Peloton.
0:33.1	The Guardian
0:39.1	My name is Eshmael Inashay.
0:40.9	I'm a freelance journalist and the writer of the piece you're about to listen to.
0:46.0	I was inspired by this article because I wanted to get to grips with how over the last
0:51.1	two decades the concept of citizenship has been eroded in the UK and how in that process
0:59.9	many people have been forgotten.
1:02.9	In the last 20 years, citizenship participation and shared values have been given ever more
1:10.1	emphasis.
1:11.1	They have also unfortunately been accompanied by a deepening atmosphere of suspicion around
1:17.9	people of Muslim background, particularly those like myself who were born overseas or
1:24.0	who hold dual nationality.
1:27.2	I wanted to write this piece because I wanted to tell this story of how this is making people
1:32.1	like myself who have often struggled to become British feel like second-class citizens.
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