#refugee-experience

#refugee-experience

As a child of refugees settling in Australia after the second world war, I experienced the searing poverty that myriads of displaced people dealt with as they tried to rebuild lives in far away, unfamiliar places.

Finding the refugee camp again became an obsession, wrapping itself around my consciousness like tendrils reaching for the elusive January light.

"My story is a story of a refugee from the rice fields to Springfield. But it's also a story that's similar to a lot of immigrants and refugees in this district."

Every Vietnamese household needs a kitchen in their backyard or garage to do the 'smelly cooking', he joked, emphasizing that charring the aromatics is key to enhancing the flavor of miến gà.

‘As I got older, their anxieties became my own. I would automatically assume that someone asking for directions might run off with my phone.’

The film opens with László Tóth, a Hungarian Jewish refugee, navigating the immediate aftermath of World War II. Director Brady Corbet uses darkness to symbolize the shadows of the past haunting him, particularly his wife’s disembodied voice echoing loss and separation, emphasizing the emotional toll of migrant lives interrupted by trauma.

Miriam Gold's book, seemingly simple yet profound, tells the powerful story of her grandmother, Dr. Elena Zadik, a refugee twice over who dedicated her life to medicine despite unimaginable pain.