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Episode 2

Episode 2 of 5

Series in which writers reflect on the meaning of freedom. 2/5. Benjamin Markovits considers the freedom of the immigrant in Britain today.

Benjamin Markovits considers the freedom of the immigrant in Britain. Half-German, half-American, part-Christian, part-Jewish, Ben has never felt fully rooted in a single culture or completely implicated in the society around him. To many, this might sound like the crisis of modern immigration: a failure to integrate. But for Ben the writer, there is freedom in being rootless in a new place - a freedom which is far from the isolation it is often associated with.

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Tue 25 Nov 2008 23:00

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  • Tue 25 Nov 2008 23:00

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