Conversations With My Immigrant Parents
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Conversations With My Immigrant Parents
Immigrant whānau across Aotearoa have frank conversations covering love, ancestry, home, food, expectation, and acceptance.
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26 epizod
None of Us Know
Both Mahe and his dad Tui were raised by their Tongan grandmothers. In the last episode of the series, father and son discuss namesakes, queerness, an...
Crying from Up in the Sky [Vietnamese]
Hương fell pregnant at 20, but she didn't know it was twins until it was time to push. In this bilingual episode, she talks with her daughters Hà and...
Crying from Up in the Sky [English Dub]
Hương fell pregnant at 20, but she didn't know it was twins until it was time to push. In this bilingual episode, she talks with her daughters Hà and...
Mama Is More Stronger
Tooba and her husband Habib chat with their teens about community and strength in Ōtautahi, a place that has been both a source of immense grief and l...
(I Need To) Put More Water in My Beans
In Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, Mara and Beto learn how their son Jamil found out about the birds and the bees in Brazil, while their kids talk about growing up...
Representation Matters
Palestine is where the heart is for father Sameer and his daughters Wajd and Shahd. The family discuss the difficulties returning home, sisterhood, an...
Little Pomegranate Tree
Adel escaped religious persecution in Iran as a teenager. He talks with his wife Maxine and daughter Carmel about language, whakapapa, plane rides, an...
Season 3 Trailer
Immigrant whānau across Aotearoa have frank conversations covering love, ancestry, home, food, expectation, and acceptance.
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Something Far Greater Than This
How do we search for something we've never seen? The last episode of the series sees the Arif whānau reflect on their years in Aotearoa and dream of a...
Homesick on the Marae
Arriving from Fiji, newlywed Halima Stewart headed straight to Tapu Te Ranga Marae where she raised three kids with husband Bruce. She talks with her...
My Dad Is My Mum
In Kirikiriroa, Donally and her father Alfredo discuss parenting that contradicts society's expectations, how Filipino men are expected to 'get on wit...
Side by Side
Sisters Avi and Eva sit down with their daughters and talk about white men who travel to Indonesia, the fetishisation of Asian women, and leading para...
Red Chicken with the Big Wings
It took Juliana eight long years to gain residency after moving here from Brazil. She and her mum Nadmea discuss New Zealand's immigration system, sec...
VIP
After four years studying in Dunedin, Alby has just moved back in with his mum Lina in Naenae. The two of them discuss Lina's career, Alby's grief, an...
Independence Is Great but It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
When 11-year-old Anique left Sri Lanka, she thought it'd be temporary. Almost two decades later, she talks with brother Navin and mum Sushani about gu...
Not Your White Boy
From Botswana to Nelson to Pōneke, Judah and his sons Tafara and Pako have experienced multiple communities. They talk about fruit picking, single dad...
We Can’t Speak the Same Language
In this "bonus" episode of the podcast no one asked for, co-producers and hosts Saraid and Julie talk to their own mums, who hail from Sri Lanka and C...
Nothing other than Beauty and Hope
The Muzondiwa family left Zimbabwe at a time when it was difficult to buy even bread. They talk colonisation in Africa and Aotearoa, and whether findi...
Sucking on Chicken Feet
Ty Meng's parents escaped the Cambodian genocide and went on to raise five children in Lower Hutt. Three generations of the Meng family consider how t...
The Best Street in Birkdale
The Solomons thought leaving South Africa meant leaving entrenched white supremacy. They discuss how much of this they still found in NZ, and what the...
Actually, I’m Korean
Sue left Korea with one life in mind, but ended up with something very different. Mum and daughter Bokyong talk divorce, starting over, and why rural...
It Was Clearly a Joke
Aliyaan (13) and his mum Masooma are Pakistani Muslims living in East Tāmaki. They discuss being a migrant kid, the March 15 terrorist attack, and how...
Argumentative Is an English Concept
Francisco and Vibeke are parents to teenagers who regularly switch between Argentinian and Dutch cultures. They talk about why coming from different c...
Really Nice Potato Sacks
Joseph and Grace Trinidad talk about making their "own little Philippines" in the Hawke's Bay, why Filipinos love competition, and what it means to be...
A Dress and a Cardigan for Mele
In Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, Tongan grandmother Liliani and her daughter Kesaia find that even though they talk every day on the phone (and have for 17 years...
Season 1 | Trailer
Immigrant whānau across Aotearoa have frank conversations covering love, ancestry, home, food, expectation, and acceptance.
Conversations with M...