Tag: immigrant

The first few seconds of Celine Song’s decades-spanning, poignantly lived-in debut feature, Past Lives, are about assumptions. As cinematographer Shabier Kirschner’s camera slowly pushes in on our three protagonists — Nora (Greta Lee), Hae-sung (Teo Yoo), and Arthur (John Maga...

Every time I return to my home country for a yearly visit, I feel a little more alien, more estranged, and more disconnected than the year before. Living in another country for over a decade does that to you. It’s a sad feeling when you realize that you don’t belong there anymore, but it...

Every time I return to my home country for a yearly visit, I feel a little more alien, more estranged, and more disconnected than the year before. Living in another country for over a decade does that to you. It’s a sad feeling when you realize that you don’t belong there anymore, but it...

Although we’re living in an era in which many companies advocate for diversity and inclusion, I am often still the only female director in the room in the tech industry. Even more often, I find myself to be the only first-generation immigrant who learned English as a second language. This i...

Enough is enough! Any f** foreigner, anyone… just kill them… just f** kill them”, went the voice notes on far-right Whatsapp groups that mobilised and wreaked havoc on the city — on my city — last Thursday. My city — you ask? But who am I? I am the ...

Let’s start at the beginning: I was born in 2000’s Ukraine, nine years after the country’s longed-for independence. My family just made it out alive of the 90s — a tumultuous period of hyper-accelerated capitalism and banditism. Entire lives were crashed or evela...

From space, you might not be able to notice it but more humans are on the move right now than at any time since World War II. Most countries in the world are dealing with “moving humans” and most countries are trying to figure out where to put them and how to incorporate their talents...

I am an immigrant in Canada, I was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, and moved to Vancouver, Canada with my family when I was 17. There are about 8 million immigrants in Canada as of 2023 (according to statista.com). Immigrating to a new country is not easy, but a lot of people, includin...

“Enough is enough! Any f** foreigner, anyone… just kill them… just f** kill them”, went the voice notes on far-right Whatsapp groups that mobilised and wreaked havoc on the city — on my city — last Thursday. My city — you ask? But who am I? I ...

At first, my answer was about accountability, encouraging these young adults to express their discomfort with the statements, explain why they felt that way, try to change their parents’ behavior, and ask their parent to not make those jokes/statements around them. As time went on, and I go...

I’ve asked myself this without letting the question resonate with me. My fears of using the word immigrant when describing my father felt fake. But it’s true by meaning. My dad came to Canada when he was sixteen or eighteen or twenty, somewhere around there, and I did...

It is a well known fact that immigrants trying to start over in a new country face many obstacles. However, the many challenges faced by children born to immigrant parents are rarely discussed in the public sphere or in academic circles. In particular, second-generation immigrants struggle with uniq...

Life, in all its vibrant shades, can be a tumultuous journey of laughter, tears, and everything in between. For someone like me, this journey has been a rich tapestry woven with threads of culture, identity, and the ever-present influence of my immigrant parents. It’s a story that resonates wi...

Ah, the infamous three words, “I love you.” For some, it’s a verbal affirmation as necessary as breathing; for others, a trite cliché. But in my household, it’s like hunting for a unicorn in the big city — highly unlikely but always deeply desired. G...

The first few seconds of Celine Song’s decades-spanning, poignantly lived-in debut feature, Past Lives, are about assumptions. As cinematographer Shabier Kirschner’s camera slowly pushes in on our three protagonists — Nora (Greta Lee), Hae-sung (Teo Yoo), and Arthur (John Maga...