October 2021

Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan (2017), Brooklyn: Restless Books, 9781632061423, 243 pages.

Last Updated on October 31, 2021 by themigrationnews 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 […]

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Caroline S. Hau (2017), Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture, Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 978-971-550-779-0, 398 pages.

Last Updated on October 26, 2021 by themigrationnews 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

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Leaving home: The pain of separation and loss of identity of migrants

Last Updated on October 16, 2021 by themigrationnews Gumnam din (Missing Days) is a short movie of 27 minutes directed, written and researched by Ekta Mittal. The movie was shot in Hindi language and released in the year 2019. The film was funded by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and edited by Abhro Banerjee.

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The Present – Making the Mundane Momentous

Last Updated on October 4, 2021 by themigrationnews The Present, directed by Farah Nabulsi and written by Hind Shofani is a short film of 23minutes. The film received wide international recognition; it won the ‘International Audience Prize’ in the 2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, as well as the BAFTA Film Award 2021, the Aesthetica

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