immigrants — Features

Shaymaa: The fraught relationship between daughter and immigrant mother

Complicated mother-daughter relationships are often heightened between immigrant mothers and their daughters, where cultural conflicts add fire to existing generational and familial disconnections. After watching the short film Shaymaa – an exploration of the complications of immigrant parenthood – Italian-Egyptian writer Aya Mohamed meditates on her own tenuous but joyful relationship with her mother.

ARTS & CULTUREAZEEMA -August 17, 2022mother, family, immigrants, Feminism, women, womanhood, filmmaker, film

Filmmaker Sonita Gale documents the UK's hostile migration environment through her personal South Asian history

Documentary filmmaker Sonita Gale talks us through her reasons behind making her recent BAFTA-shortlisted film ‘Hostile’ and how her family’s migration from India to working-class white neighbourhoods in the North of England has inspired her wider creative and political work.

Reimagining the narrative of the Immigrant Hustle

Naina Humayoon shares an introspective account of her parents’ sacrifices and successes as immigrants, and how she is reimagining the desire to ‘hustle’ hard through her own life, questioning how she values herself against the measures of a capital-driven Western environment.

The Road to Nowhere: a zine chronicling second-generation immigrant experiences and cultural identities

Writer and Editor Dalia Al-Dujaili talks us through her latest powerful project, The Road to Nowhere: A zine collection of second-generation immigrant experiences told through writing, photography, poetry and illustration.

ARTS & CULTUREAZEEMA -December 9, 2020diaspora, the road to nowhere, immigrants