Shukla's book tells stories of "anger, displacement, defensiveness, curiosity, absurdity" as well as "death, class, microaggression, popular culture, access, freedom of movement, stake in society, lingual fracas, masculinity, and more".

"[4] Arifa Akbar, writing in The Financial Times, thought that J. K. Rowling's involvement (and that of other cultural leaders) in fund raising for the collection contained "whisperings of white saviourism" but that despite that, "the book reads like an uncompromised work" that summarises "experiences of racism or racial pigeonholing".

[8] In an interview with multi-national newspaper The Guardian, Unbound's co-founder John Mitchinson stated that crowdfunding means that "the handwringing that usually surrounds this issue is replaced by positive action on the part of both contributors and potential readers.

"[9] Following the success of The Good Immigrant, Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman solicited contributions from American minority writers, actors, comedians, directors, and artists.

In The Netherlands, crowdfunding for a Dutch version of The Good Immigrant by podcast Dipsaus (Anousha Nzume, Ebissé Wakjira and Mariam El Maslouhi) was successfully finished in March 2020.