UBC Migration: Geographies of the Heart – Life-writing from Newcomers to Canada
The UBC Centre for Migration Studies Global Migration Podcast is back for a second season entitled “Geographies of the Heart: Life-writing from Newcomers to Canada” hosted by award-winning advocate, Mohammed Alsaleh. This season is born out of a year-long writing project with a group of newcomers and educators who have been authoring their own stories of migration on topics such as love, loss, displacement, exile, belonging and disruption. The voices that have created this podcast are local BC-based newcomers, and their stories challenge us all to think differently and more deeply about the contemporary Canadian immigration landscape.
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This series brings you newcomer stories from around the province. The voices that have created this podcast are local BC-based newcomers, and their stories challenge us all to think differently and more deeply about the contemporary Canadian immigration landscape. Bringing together a diverse array of newcomer voices, each episode shares compelling, first-hand experiences of coming to and living in Canada. This season is born out of a year-long writing project, “Stories from Newcomers to Canada,” with a group of newcomers who have been authoring their own stories of migration on topics such as love, loss, displacement, exile, belonging and disruption. These stories capture the current complexity of journeying to and settling in Canada. Most importantly, this series creates a space in which newcomers can share their experiences and perspectives with policymakers, academics and the media. Season 2 of the series runs from February 2021 to April 2021.
To support the newcomers book project please visit the project’s GoFundMe page here. If you have questions about the book project please contact Dr. Amea Wilbur (amea.wilbur@ufv.ca) and Raymonde Tickner (raymondetickner@gmail.com).
The second season of The Global Migration podcast is produced by Emily Amburgey. This podcast was recorded on Zoom on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people.
