Introduction We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story takes us through the life of Simu Liu – a Canadian actor and stuntman who is also now the author of this book. This memoir is honest, inspiring, and relatable as it shows Liu’s origin story of growing up in China, immigrating to Canada, beginning to […]
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The book ‘Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons Under International Humanitarian Law’ explores the correlation between conflict and displacement by examining how the law of armed conflict – International Humanitarian Law (hereafter IHL) – deals with the issue of displacement. A series of questions are raised by the author in
Introduction The Namesake movie, directed by Mira Nair, is adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2003 novel, which comes under the genre of drama and Hindi cinema. The film, released in 2006, is currently available to buy or rent on YouTube Movies. The producers of the film are Mira Nair and Lydia Dean Pilcher, with Fox Searchlight
Author: Vice News HBO. Year: 2018 Length: Twenty-One Minutes. Publisher: YouTube. Motivation to Move In the month of December 2018, a large group of people known as the ‘caravan’ is on the march to the United States, mostly from Central and South American countries. The protagonist is a sixteen-year-old boy who is going on with
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Author: Channel 4 News. Narrator: Jamal Osman. Setting: Sub-Sahara Africa. Length: Thirteen Minutes. Background It is an investigative documentary on the dangers faced by migrants using the ‘Southern’ migration route to seek better living standards in the same continent. The southern migration route is a path followed by migrants from both east and west Africa
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The book ‘Gender and Migration’ is a study of two European scholars Anastasia Christou and Eleonore Kofman on feminisation of migration studies/ migration. The book is published on 08 March 2022 and focuses on recent trends in migration that is during the past thirty or so years. However, the study looks back to the general
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To reach Europe, citizens from many countries on the African continent venture into the oceans and seas. They leave for several reasons. Some leave their homeland to flee armed conflicts, climate crises, and misery. Others are fleeing persecution, and they are all looking for better skies. “Adù” is the title of this film which traces,
‘Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman,’ written by Ramona Vijeyarasa, contains a systemic analysis of human trafficking and the conventional notions about the nature and characteristics of its victims, which are dominated by narratives of the victims being extremely poor, illiterate, and female. The author is a human rights lawyer and academician who delves deeply
Length: 45 minutes. Director: Charles Empatz Production under BBC Africa Eye. Location: Eastern Africa, Middle East, and Europe. Language: English. Year of release: 2021 The Beginning The documentary starts in a remote part of Eastern African country, the great Ethiopia. Like many other African countries, the area is poverty-ridden due to the ‘African’ disease factors.
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Compared to animals, humans have a unique ability: we can dream. Our dreams differ greatly, but we all want to live amidst goodness and abundance. And for this, people are willing to pay a high price, even if it means risking their lives. Although most migration is voluntary and beneficial to individuals and societies, it
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