More than 2500 years ago, an ancient Greek tragedian Euripides wrote in his masterpiece “Medea”: “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”. Nowadays, every migrant, regardless of the reasons for their departure, hopes for a better life in a new place. Nevertheless, what happens to migrants after so many years of living […]
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The book ‘Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia‘ is written by Sunil Amrith and comprises five chapters. Historian Sunil Amrith has demonstrated various migration patterns across South and Southeast Asia. He attempted to articulate how migration has shaped history and the narratives and how human mobility has played a significant role in allowing ideas of
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Documentary Length: 1hr 28 min. Language: English Setting; Africa and the United States. Producer: Christopher Dillon Quinn. The Origin The documentary begins in an African Savannah setting, backed by a hot tune by Sudanese activist singer ‘Gigi’, known as Guramayle. The refugees are shown lamenting the Sudanese civil war, which tore them from the motherland
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Reece Jones (2016), Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move, New York: Verso, ISBN-13:978-1-78478-474-4, 222 pages. Forced migration has been a growing concern for governments and scholars across the globe for the last few years. As of the end of 2020, the UNHCR accounts for more than 34 million forcibly displaced people between refugees
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Documentary. In English. Running time: 1 hour. In the heartbreaking documentary First Person Plural, DeannBorshayDeann, a Korean adoptee traces her emotional journey from Sun Duk orphanage in South Korea as Cha Jung Hee to growing up in the US as Deann Borshay and finally rediscovering her real identity as Kang Ok jin and her “real
Book Review: Passage of Fortune?: Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab by Aswini Kumar Nanda, Jacques Veron, and S. Iruadaya Rajan, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, 2021; pp xxi + 335. The non-availability of timely and rigorous data sources for the analysis of dynamism of international migration and construction of
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Whenever any hurdle arises in international trade flows, it acquires over the top attention at the global level. The ‘Suez Canal’, which is the shortest sea trade route between Asia and Europe, got blocked in the March 2021 for a few days, when one of the longest shipping containers named as ‘Ever Given’ ran aground
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Jason DeParle’s A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves navigates modern migration through the riveting multi-generational saga of the Portaganas, a family of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose decades-long journey unfolded across three continents. DeParle first met the family matriarch, Tita Portagana Comodas, in 1987 as an American reporter whose original intent was to write
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Deepak Unnikrishnan is the author of the fiction novel- ‘Temporary People’, published in 2017 by Restless Books. The author compiled twenty-eight short stories and divided them in three parts titled Limbs; Tongue. Flesh and Veed. The author was born to migrant labourers in the Gulf. In 2016, Deepak Unnikrishnan won the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing,
Caroline S. Hau’s Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture reflects on the long-established yet evolving roles of Filipino elite in nation-building and world-making. In the introductory chapter, Hau opens with the key thesis that the Filipino imagined community can no longer be imagined in terms of “a strict separation between inside and outside, between foreign
