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  • By Sea or Land: Refugees or Displaced Persons - Van-Nha Tran
    Becoming a Refugee Time 3:23 Transcript (This video is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) Yes, that's it. Since we, we, we learned that, uhm, the—by ocean, directly from Vietnam, it's a lot more difficult, because it's uhm, it's the pirates, the, uhm, it's …
  • Women at Risk Refugee Program - Kathleen Sigurdson
    Becoming a Refugee Time 1:39 Transcript Kathleen Sigurdson (KS): Because all the applications, even from those other countries—so if you were living in Qatar, you had to apply to Abu Dhabi because we didn’t have any offices there. And also when I was in Abu Dhabi, it was a time when it started, I …
  • Hiding in the Jungle - Bwe Doh Soe
    Becoming a Refugee Time 2:41 Transcript I was very young, and I wasn’t remember anything, because all I remember was my, my mom was grabbing my hands, and is told me to run. And he was grabbing me so hard, and he grabbed some of the belonging, and, we ran away. And then we were—because I was a—I …
  • We Never Talk About Hope - Bwe Doh Soe
    Becoming a Refugee Time 1:00 Transcript To me, like, because we are living such —I think we have—we don’t even understand what is hope, you know. What is, like, hoping to be somebody. Or hoping to become someone. Like, we don’t even have—and I was never think about hoping to become something, you …
  • Students for Change - Richard Tshimanga
    Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · Students for Change Time 1:51 Transcript (This audio is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) Yes. Actually, at first, I did? I was always, I was always in the—in my country, when I was a student I was in the? the? the pro-change …
  • My Father’s Music - Ilse Thompson
    Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript Ilse Thompson (IT): And, um, we had a wonderful time. But then the day came when I met my girlfriend on the street. A girlfriend, my best friend, on the street, and she looked, didn't look at me, she didn't say hello. She was …
  • Leaving Uganda: “My Whole Life in 1972” - Umeeda Switlo
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is Umeeda Switlo. When I left Uganda my name was Umeeda Umedaly. I brought this suitcase with me so that you could share with me this time, almost forty years ago, over forty years ago, that I left Uganda. And it says Umeeda Umedaly …
  • Intermediate Countries and the Separation of Family - Richard Tshimanga
    Leaving Home and Coming to Canada CMIP 21 · Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 3:17 Transcript (This audio is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) I stayed in Switzerland. I appealed and the appeal was always pending this time. The appeal was always …
  • Pain of Hunger by Sudarson
    Time 0:03:49 Transcript Mom used to tell me the story where I was born. She told me I was born in Bhutan, which is a beautiful Himalayan country. I don’t remember living there, but I remember the day we left; when I was crying with hunger. My parents are carrying nothing. They don’t have anything …
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