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From Tehran to Newcastle: “I Am Nasrine” and the Politics of Telling Migrant Narratives - Ajam Media Collective
I am Nasrine is the tale of two Iranian siblings who migrate to England and find a world of rampant discrimination that looks little like what they expected. The tragedy of the film is not one that can be easily limited to English housing estates or the plight of Iranian emigres. Indeed, this tale of migrant survival and struggle is far more universal, a searing indictment of the limits of liberalism and the failure of international and local humanitarian bureaucracies -- as well as receiving societies as a whole -- to effectively understand migrants as complex human beings.View Post
Alex Shams