Conversations With My Immigrant Parents is a podcast and video series where immigrant whānau have conversations they normally wouldn’t, crossing barriers of language, generation, and expectation. Co-hosts and producers Saraid de Silva and Julie Zhu travelled Aotearoa meeting families from different countries, sitting in as they spoke to each other about love, disappointment, what home means to them - and where home really is.
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A Tongan father and son talk about bisexuality and being a good dad
"For me, the biggest thing is just to have you as a dad, there all the time."
A Vietnamese mother on finding home in her twin daughters
Hương fell pregnant at 20, but she didn’t know it was twins until it was time to push.
The joy and pain Ōtautahi has brought a Pakistani family
“I started wearing the hijab because I felt proud showing that I was Muslim after 15th of March."
Growing up Black and Brazilian in Gisborne
Watch the third episode of Conversations With My Immigrant Parents Season 3 now.
A Palestinian whānau on land, sovereignty and Shortland Street.
"We are loud and we are proud to be Palestinian.”
Fleeing Iran as a teenager was easier than parenting
Watch the first episode from the new season of Conversations With My Immigrant Parents.
