{"id":821,"date":"2025-08-09T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/?p=821"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:31:53","slug":"agathachiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/2025\/agathachiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The strum of cascading xylophones are my parents FaceTiming us 7pm our time, 10am their time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creators:<br \/>\nAgatha Chiu \u8d99\u5029\u6021 (She\/her)<\/p>\n<p>Migration is often seen as a pathway to a better life &#8211; a chance to leave behind troubles at home, difficulties in one&#8217;s current circumstance, and burdens from one&#8217;s family. Unfortunately, the realities of migration are often very different from those that people imagine. Loneliness. Homesickness. Missing family. Missing food. Acculturation. Many things. People engage in all kinds of artistic pursuits to express their migration experiences. In this series of poems, Agatha details her own experiences of migration &#8211; whether it&#8217;s about trying to connect with family back home, or finding her place in this new culture by navigating a lot of self-doubt and lack of belongingness. Do her experiences resonate with you as well if you have a migration history?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"590px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen onload=\"var tF=this;setInterval(function(){var fh=tF.scrollWidth*0.636;if(fh&gt;400)fh=400;tF.style.height=fh+'px';},500);\" style=\"border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.clas.ubc.ca\/guest\/clas\/index.php?anon=true&#038;nevid=%2F0GVgG1mxY2nqDo4y2%2BUkZsWBQ8hTt98IsuQGUQZ3FIOXgxHZuQ0v2acXZ8rxvR0jVvkxxONLhSnPLrj%2FS0ms4%2Bi1Yulem5SDReeqRoZWYIRZySGN1RzXEp4ekfH0jkumiMb%2FlADtLF2PKUTEzPPR3%2B3n4fpSeZkaytTD%2FZ3MIp305f21cnF7EfG%2Bzi7gbLqvce05qF6K4c6hqdbv%2FOpDiyKOPCLcFZVjxElYkYf0%2F0%3D&#038;co=false&#038;minimal=true&#038;discbtn=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"590px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen onload=\"var tF=this;setInterval(function(){var fh=tF.scrollWidth*0.636;if(fh&gt;400)fh=400;tF.style.height=fh+'px';},500);\" style=\"border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.clas.ubc.ca\/guest\/clas\/index.php?anon=true&#038;nevid=Lox2uNz2imK6NM7soaxy1rVcl6%2FGRXDVK9xWn3gHPBQOXgxHZuQ0v2acXZ8rxvR0jVvkxxONLhSnPLrj%2FS0ms4%2Bi1Yulem5SDReeqRoZWYIVn6skUvpDejIu5y4YKaHlCqhbtuvzKB8OqBCAhT1IlKDVnmA2diaPAljZD4ht0heK46tQSVFya1h3j54NoRIpXU89WeODbpLo4KeSj8kgqyyKOPCLcFZVjxElYkYf0%2F0%3D&#038;co=false&#038;minimal=true&#038;discbtn=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strum of cascading xylophones are my parents FaceTiming us 7pm our time, 10am their time. Creators: Agatha Chiu \u8d99\u5029\u6021 (She\/her) Migration is often seen as a pathway to a better life &#8211; a chance to leave behind troubles at home, difficulties in one&#8217;s current circumstance, and burdens from one&#8217;s family. Unfortunately, the realities of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/2025\/agathachiu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reflecting on Migration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,2,3],"tags":[22,43,63,119],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025litart","category-asix315","category-litart","tag-acculturation","tag-diasporic-guilt","tag-home","tag-loneliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}