Community Partner: Sliced Mango Collective
Student Researchers:
Aham Pandey
Jasmine is a 1.5 generation Filipino-Canadian immigrant. She was raised in Richmond, BC and was in her final year of a Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice major when participating in this project.
Zahra Habibi is a senior undergraduate majoring in psychology at the University of British Columbia. As a first-generation Afghan immigrant, she is deeply interested in migration, identity, and cultural preservation themes. This project drew inspiration from the Kwentong Pamamahay Project, which centered on storytelling and the immigration journeys of Filipino Canadians. In line with its themes, Zahra and her group members shared their individual migration experiences from their perspectives. Through her contributions to the project, she delved into the emotional and cultural intricacies of immigration, with the goal of enhancing diverse narratives of belonging. Zahra aspires to continue her work in community-based research and cross-cultural studies.
“Our Stories of Home-Making” is a podcast about the connections and similarities between the distinct immigration journeys of Afghan, Indian and Filipinx immigrants. This podcast was a research project for a UBC course about Asian Canadian Community Engaged Research and developed in collaboration with the Sliced Mango Collective, a Filipinx-Canadian community organization based in Metro Vancouver. Our intention for this podcast was to engage with some of the core themes discussed in the Kuwentong Pamamahay project, an digital oral history archive focused on Filipinx home-making practices. In doing so, we want to build a foundation for intercultural solidarity between the Filipinx, Afghan and Indian diasporic communities in Canada. We believe that by sharing these stories, we can foster understanding, empathy, and a sense of kinship among our respective communities.