Breaking down British-Iraqi trauma in Insane Asylum Seekers

Breaking down British-Iraqi trauma in Insane Asylum Seekers

A look at the staging for Insane Asylum Seekers and you’ll see some of the most recognisable markers of a British childhood in the 2000s – an Argos catalogue with the section at the back for covetable toys, TV–DVD-VCR combis, and the crest wallpaper in the projection of a suburban living room. If you were a British-Iraqi child, your early life might also have been marked by some trembling undercurrents – politicians and pundits might have been o…