Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Safeer has been a migrant worker in the Gulf States for the past decade. Through his work abroad, he was able to support his family - until Covid-19 pushed him back to India. Watch this episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times’ to hear how his goals for his life have shifted over the course of the pandemic.
Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times is a digital storytelling project 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: Aneeta Shajan, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Sayed Migdad
Edited by: Robert Hentschel
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Hopeful Child", "Skeptic" - 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
Safeer has been a migrant worker in the Gulf States for the past decade. Through his work abroad, he was able to support his family - until Covid-19 pushed him back to India. Watch this episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times’ to hear how his goals for his life have shifted over the course of the pandemic.
Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times is a digital storytelling project 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: Aneeta Shajan, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Sayed Migdad
Edited by: Robert Hentschel
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Hopeful Child", "Skeptic" - 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
