Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 minutes ago
Stephanie was about to open a new restaurant in Berkeley, California, when the pandemic started. After years of working in the hospitality industry, lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus forced her to find a new line of work. Learn about the ways Stephanie adapted to the challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in this episode of 'Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times'.
'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: Francisco Nuñez Capriles, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Francisco Nuñez Capriles
Edited by: Karoline Schulz
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Galoshes", "Dust In Sunlight" - 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
Stephanie was about to open a new restaurant in Berkeley, California, when the pandemic started. After years of working in the hospitality industry, lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus forced her to find a new line of work. Learn about the ways Stephanie adapted to the challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in this episode of 'Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times'.
'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: Francisco Nuñez Capriles, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton
Camera & sound: Francisco Nuñez Capriles
Edited by: Karoline Schulz
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Galoshes", "Dust In Sunlight" - 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
