migration — Features

Separation, performance and the determination of the migrant worker in Sung-A Yoon’s documentaries

We sat down with South Korean filmmaker Sung-A Yoon to learn more about her recent film Overseas which documents the plight, will and toil of Filipino female migrant workers, often working throughout the Arab region, as writer Thea Sun explores the filmmakers wider body of work.

ARTS & CULTUREAZEEMA -January 6, 2023overseas, migration, labour, feminism, women directors, east asian, korean

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.