Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Mencie and her family struggled with quarantine rules, cancelled school, and unstable employment during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy. From losing her job as a housekeeper at the start of the crisis, to being forced to self-isolate away from her children, Mencie's life was undeniably uprooted in 2020 and 2021. Watch her episode of 'Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times' to find out more.
'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: Letizia Palumbo, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Letizia Gullo
Edited by: Robert Hentschel
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Routines", "Intention" - 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
Mencie and her family struggled with quarantine rules, cancelled school, and unstable employment during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy. From losing her job as a housekeeper at the start of the crisis, to being forced to self-isolate away from her children, Mencie's life was undeniably uprooted in 2020 and 2021. Watch her episode of 'Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times' to find out more.
'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: Letizia Palumbo, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Letizia Gullo
Edited by: Robert Hentschel
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Routines", "Intention" - 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
