Episode 3: What Being Non-South African Means, by Mathilda, Mocktail, Shada & Salva The GRABS podcast – Episode 3: What Being Non-South African Means, by Mathilda, Mocktail, Shada & Salva
Episode 2: On Discrimination, by Jorojina, Alex, Aisha & Joy The GRABS podcast – Episode 2: On Discrimination, by Jorojina, Alex, Aisha & Joy
Episode 1: Presenting the team, by Jane, Glenda, Jessi, Izzy, and Juan Manuel It’s here! Our team’s first podcast is now live. We’re diving into who we are, what we’re working on, and why it matters. Tune in to learn more about GRABS and the questions driving our research. You can listen to it here…
In late July, Juan Manuel Moreno, one of GRABS PhD candidates, travelled to K’jipuktuk-Halifax, in Eastern Canada for a two-week fieldwork and scoping visit. K’jipuktuk-Halifax is the ancestral land of the Mi’kmaq who lived in these lands for over 11000 years. Today, K’jipuktuk-Halifax is the capital of what is known as the province of Nova…
by Jorojina Elisha, August 2025 In this world we live in, we are faced with a lot of suffering and trouble. Day by day, weencounter something unbearable. It could be getting an F on a math test, breaking up withyour girlfriend, or losing your job. But what if your pain and suffering were constant—everyday, every…
Building Not pretty but it raised me. Broken outside but whole inside. From these walls I rose. Unsafe to others, sacred to me. Unsafe walls, safe memories. Foundation may be cratered but it held me up. You see danger, I see my origin story. Poem by Maria, eThekwini-Durban, South Africa, July 2025 … Credit: Photo…
Family Tree We grow and disperse We learn the ways of life Ways that lead us astray Some learn and gain wisdom Others learn to use knowledge against others The ways of life Life is like a tree Starts from a simple seed Sprouts into what we call the beauty of nature Each slowly fades…
Evangelia Tastsoglou is a Canadian partner on the GRABS project. She is Professor of Sociology and Global Development Studies, at Saint Mary’s University. She has published extensively, engaging a feminist and intersectional perspective, on International Migration, Canadian Immigration and Integration, Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Violence in Migration and Refugee Contexts. She is a former president…
In My Head I can’t run. I can’t hide. I close all the doors and windows. Yet, I still Hear their voices Memories I wish I’d forgotten Displaying in my head like A cinema.. I’m stuck in my head and my thoughts are killing me. I feel dead waiting for my last breath… there is…
Conscripted Souls It’s a scary world we’re living in, in a world where love has become a computation as to who gets the most exes Where did the long loving true love go? or did our parents hide it only for their generation? I read a quote that goes “when you find your first love…
