REFLECTION: Intercultural communication blogger Marta Zielińska describes her emotional journey of moving from Poland to the UK.
Category: Thoughts + Stories
Yahya
SHORT STORY: Yahya wakes up to another day wrestling with the internal griefs of his translocation.
Matter out of place
SHORT STORY: Lien Hoang brings us a story of new landscapes and stark contrasts, set in the Snowy Mountains of NSW.
Extract: Weird Culture Kids (Ngọc Nguyễn)
MEMOIR: Ngọc Nguyễn and New Degree Press bring us an extract from Ngọc’s upcoming memoir – Weird Culture Kids.
From Continental Europe to Cosmopolitan Canberra
REFLECTION: Krystian Sadkowsky recounts his family’s complex migration history to where they are all settled today.
To be or to be
THOUGHT PIECE: Anna Koestenbauer considers the contradictions inherent to ‘being’ a migrant Australian.
I am Piedmontese
REFLECTION: Mirella Sadkowsky narrates her migration story, exploring the impact of distance on her sense of cultural identity.
Connections, far away
BORROWED MEMOIR: Dunja Kaczmarek recalls two moments of surprise connection with fellow cross-cultural migrants across two countries.
Home
REFLECTION: Božana Pašić contemplates the restoration of connections lost to time and war, and tracks how her family’s notion of ‘home’ has changed over multiple migrations.
On the move during COVID-19
REFLECTION: Nicola Jones shares her family’s experience of COVID-19, straddling life between Japan and New Zealand.
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