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Tag Archives: migration

Book review: The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins (Canada)

Mathieu Wilkins’ account of accompanying a refugee on a perilous journey from Afghanistan to Western Europe

Posted byimogenglad25th Mar 202329th Mar 2023Posted inbookTags: Afghanistan, books, Canada, immigrant experience, memoir, migration, non-fictionLeave a comment on Book review: The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins (Canada)

Film Review: Le Havre (Finland)

A Utopian slice of small-town life from 2011 by Aki Kaurismäki

Posted byimogenglad15th Oct 202215th Oct 2022Posted infilmTags: Aki Kaurismaki, comedy, drama, Europe, european cinema, film, Finland, Finnish film, France, immigrant experience, migration, refugees2 Comments on Film Review: Le Havre (Finland)

Film ‘Midnight Traveler’ by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

moving and engaging documentary film about one family’s desperate struggle to flee Afghanistan

Posted byimogenglad6th Feb 2022Posted infilmTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan month, documentary, film, migration, movie, North Africa Middle East and Central Asia, refugees4 Comments on Film ‘Midnight Traveler’ by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

Review no 106: Film Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

moving and engaging documentary film about one family’s desperate struggle to flee Afghanistan

Posted byimogenglad26th Sep 202030th Jan 2022Posted infilmTags: Afghanistan, documentary, film, migration, movie, North Africa Middle East and Central Asia, refugees1 Comment on Review no 106: Film Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

Review no 50: Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt (USA)

Thrilling and senselessly controversial

Posted byimogenglad10th Feb 20204th Jun 2020Posted inbookTags: bestseller, mexico, migration, the americas and the caribbean, thriller, USA2 Comments on Review no 50: Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt (USA)

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