In ‘Drift,’ Migrant Stories Are Complicated And White Saviorism Is Not the Answer

By Kovie Biakolo ·Updated January 23, 2023

Stories of African migrants arriving in Europe’s shores are not unusual in the latter continent’s news headlines. They are also accompanied by singular narratives of people escaping poverty and difficulty, rarely ever examining the nuances of any one individual life. In director Anthony Chen’s English debut Drift, adapted from Alexander Maksik novel, A Marker to Measure Drift, the film successfully avoids this ready-made

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