Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Zakir, originally from Bangladesh, has become a key part of the migrant workforce in Singapore. But poor quality shared accommodation only heightened his fear of contracting Covid-19 and, as a result, his mental health deteriorated during lockdown. Learn how Zakir supported his community of migrant workers in Singapore through the multiple challenges of a global pandemic in this episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times'.
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: Jérémie Molho, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton, Lilith Jogwer
Camera & sound: Ankit Sati
Edited by: Karoline Schulz
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Jack", "Refraction" - 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 embed these videos under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, the conditions of which are specified here: creativecommons.org/licenses
Zakir, originally from Bangladesh, has become a key part of the migrant workforce in Singapore. But poor quality shared accommodation only heightened his fear of contracting Covid-19 and, as a result, his mental health deteriorated during lockdown. Learn how Zakir supported his community of migrant workers in Singapore through the multiple challenges of a global pandemic in this episode of ‘Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times'.
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: Jérémie Molho, Bernadette Klausberger, Sophia Burton, Lilith Jogwer
Camera & sound: Ankit Sati
Edited by: Karoline Schulz
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Illustrations by: Valentina De Luca
Music: "Jack", "Refraction" - 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 embed these videos under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, the conditions of which are specified here: creativecommons.org/licenses
