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The Story Behind the Story

Reported by Morshed

Published on Thursday, September 5th, 2024

Community Immigration Volunteering and Employment

Blogs Reports

The Story Behind the Story

Written by Morshed

Published on Thursday, September 5th, 2024

Community

Immigration

Volunteering and Employment

The Story Behind the Story:

I wrote that My thoughts on International Refugee Week was predominantly to create awareness. Great Britain is quite an inclusive country, as we know it. Without a doubt, this is one of the most popular reasons people from other parts of the world consider the UK to be their home.

Up until very recent years, UK immigration became hostile due to some changes in policy levels, which impacted society. What seems to be ignored is the contribution of the migrant community in the UK. Many sectors, such as sports, art, and education, have reaped significant benefits. Some businesses, like food and entertainment, bring massive amounts of money into the British economy.

Immigrants are not a burden but rather asset to the UK. Being an immigrant myself, I strongly believe that we all can make a beautiful Britain together.

The angle of my writing was to create some awareness within the dominant community. I strongly believe information is a powerful tool to make a positive change when we can use it skilfully. Listen Up! is a vehicle to convey that information to society.

Written by Morshed

Morshed is a first-generation immigrant originally from Bangladesh. He was graduated in Drama and Dramatics from Jahangirnagar University (Bangladesh), and Business Studies from University of Roehampton (UK). Most of his life he worked in financial sector, but kept his artistic interest alive, so is his journalist mind. Hence, he has been working with https://www.migrantvoice.org/ as a Citizen Journalist, and with https://peopleseconomyuk.org/ as Community Ambassador. He is a Community Journalist at https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk . Morshed edited and co-edited different magazines both in Begali and English including BEYOND, published by Migrant Voice. Morshed has keen interest in street photography, classics, art and painting, and short stories from around the world. His poetry been published in an anthology in 2023. Being a first-generation immigrant, Morshed is still struggling to settle in this country, irrelevant to the length of his stay in here. Over the period of his migration journey, he has experienced some differences that should not happen in any inclusive and ideal world. He believes, it is not only him who has experienced these, a wide range of migrated and marginalised people have the similar experiences. Sadly enough, it is not always the same as we read or see in the mainstream media. Morshed has an immersed understanding, if our stories are not told by us, there is a fear; the story will be retold with an interpretation of the story re-teller. Then it will lose the authenticity of the story. Great Britain today is going through a wide range of issues that are affecting its social justice. Major aspects of everyday life; housing, health, education, unemployment as such is being eroded, impacting marginalised communities the most. Crying out for respite or change by oneself will get drowned out amidst the commotion of the modern day. However, due to organisations like Groundswell, Morshed believes, many voices crying out together is the only way to enact the dreams that we all would like to see become reality, not only for us, but for future generations. These are a few reasons he became a Listen Up! Community Reporter, with a hope to get our voice heard to make an inclusive community. He has strong interest is culture, race, ethnicity, and identity.

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