We welcome everyone to the following upcoming events!
Finding their Niche
Unheard stories of migrant women
A film by Megha Wadhwa
Film Screening
(in-person only)
24 June 2022
14:15 – 15:15
(FOLLOWED BY 30 MINS Q&A)
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Hittorfstr. 18, Altbau, 14195 Berlin
010/011 Hörsaal
An hour-long film documents the life of two Indian women migrants who moved to Japan more than a decade ago as trailing spouses. They were excited to be with their husbands and had no prior knowledge of the country. Looking into the lives of their relatives settled in the US, UK and Canada, they had similar expectations for their life in Japan. But the reality was different. Through their narratives we look into their past, present and future expectations, and their ‘position’ as Indian women, wives, mothers and workers in a foreign country, as well as the challenges they faced in ‘Finding their Niche’.
Megha Wadhwa is a migration researcher and a Japanese and Indian studies scholar. She is the author of ‘Indian Migrants in Tokyo’(Routledge:2021). For more about her, check this link – https://quamafa.de/blog/our-team/megha-wadhwa/
Film screening will take place after a talk with filmmaker
Dr. Andrew Lawrence (University of Manchester)
Click the link for details – 13:00 to 14:00 (Hybrid event) https://quamafa.de/files/2022/06/filmingfieldwork.pdf
Please register using the following link: https://bit.ly/filmingfieldwork
The event is part of the BMBF-Funded project Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Free University of Berlin
With any further queries contact: megha.wadhwa@fu-berlin.de
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany
Supported by Freie Universität Berlin; Goethe Universität Frankfurt Am Main; Sophia University Tokyo
Editorial Support by Filmmaking for Fieldwork (F4F)