Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In
Her family broken apart and her identity taken away, she had to forget her past in order to face her future. But forgetting isn’t forever.Taken from their mother’s care and deported from
Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity—in direction and character—for their state, a struggle complicated by the legacy of colonialism. The contributors to thi