Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
Dee has experienced upheaval throughout her life and the last 18 months was no exception. Though she had hoped to find a career in civil engineering in Canada, Dee found herself risking her health working as a courier for a delivery company during the pandemic. Watch Dee’s episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times’ to learn about the sacrifices and discoveries Dee made for both her family and herself.
'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: Laura Lam, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Valentina Passos Gastaldo
Edited by: Karoline Schulz
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Photos: Gig Workers United
Music: "Paper Boat" - 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
Dee has experienced upheaval throughout her life and the last 18 months was no exception. Though she had hoped to find a career in civil engineering in Canada, Dee found herself risking her health working as a courier for a delivery company during the pandemic. Watch Dee’s episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times’ to learn about the sacrifices and discoveries Dee made for both her family and herself.
'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: Laura Lam, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Valentina Passos Gastaldo
Edited by: Karoline Schulz
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Photos: Gig Workers United
Music: "Paper Boat" - 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
