A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza is a story of an American family about faith, honour, and betrayal. It is the coming-of-age story of Amar, a young Indian American Muslim in post-9/11 America. The novel revolves around Amar’s place within his family and the Indian Muslim community’s place in the United States. Amar questions […]
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Introduction I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World takes us through the life of Malala Yousafzai. Yousafzai tells a very inspiring story focused on her life since the Taliban took over her home region – Swat, Pakistan. As a result, she stood up and began to use her
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The book ‘Immigrants-Your country needs them‘ is written by Philippe Legrain. The author highlights the positive sides of immigration, such as the availability of an additional workforce at a lower price and a dedicated generation who travelled a thousand miles to change their fate. This book was published in 2007; it spans 392 pages and
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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,
