Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Arina’s ambition was to travel to South Africa to get her PhD and then return home to Zimbabwe to support her community. But, she was forced to put her plans on hold during the pandemic in order to balance the work of being a mother, a teacher, and a full-time student. Watch this episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times’ to watch how Arina has held onto her dream of returning to Zimbabwe to help her community.
'Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times‘ is a series of short documentaries combined with comments by migration scholars. The digital storytelling project migrantlives.net is produced by the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University (Toronto) and the media non-profit organization Migration Matters (Berlin). Recorded during the summer of 2021, the project presents both personal testimony and expert analysis to explore how the everyday realities of 12 migrants from across the globe have changed during the pandemic. From a Chilean pandemic home-school tutor in Oakland, California, to a Senegalese street seller in Bilbao, Spain, the stories give voice to those missing in media and public debate with the aim to build solidarity and inform policy across borders.
Editorial: Pragna Rugunanan, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Edson Mutisi, Anil Rugunanan
Edited by: Robert Hentschel
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Light Touch", "Saver" - Podington Bear soundofpicture.com
Creative Director: Bernadette Klausberger
Produced by: Ryerson University, Migration Matters e.V. 2021
For more information about our organization, Migration Matters, and our other video courses, subscribe and have a look around our YouTube channel or visit www.migrationmatters.me.
You are free (and encouraged!) to use these videos for private or public screenings and embed them under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, the conditions of which are specified here: creativecommons.org/licenses
Arina’s ambition was to travel to South Africa to get her PhD and then return home to Zimbabwe to support her community. But, she was forced to put her plans on hold during the pandemic in order to balance the work of being a mother, a teacher, and a full-time student. Watch this episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times’ to watch how Arina has held onto her dream of returning to Zimbabwe to help her community.
'Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times‘ is a series of short documentaries combined with comments by migration scholars. The digital storytelling project migrantlives.net is produced by the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University (Toronto) and the media non-profit organization Migration Matters (Berlin). Recorded during the summer of 2021, the project presents both personal testimony and expert analysis to explore how the everyday realities of 12 migrants from across the globe have changed during the pandemic. From a Chilean pandemic home-school tutor in Oakland, California, to a Senegalese street seller in Bilbao, Spain, the stories give voice to those missing in media and public debate with the aim to build solidarity and inform policy across borders.
Editorial: Pragna Rugunanan, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Edson Mutisi, Anil Rugunanan
Edited by: Robert Hentschel
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Light Touch", "Saver" - Podington Bear soundofpicture.com
Creative Director: Bernadette Klausberger
Produced by: Ryerson University, Migration Matters e.V. 2021
For more information about our organization, Migration Matters, and our other video courses, subscribe and have a look around our YouTube channel or visit www.migrationmatters.me.
You are free (and encouraged!) to use these videos for private or public screenings and embed them under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, the conditions of which are specified here: creativecommons.org/licenses
