Where Stories Move

About Where Stories Move

Welcome to Where Stories Move, a Migration Nexus podcast series about migration, memory, belonging, and the stories people carry with them. Migration Nexus is an independent platform that explores migration beyond numbers. Through research-based content, personal narratives, and creative storytelling, it aims to open space for more human, critical, and thoughtful conversations on migration, identity, borders, and belonging. In this series, we listen to migration not only as movement across borders, but as an experience that continues within people, shaping identity, home, and transformation.

Publisher

Migration Nexus

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jun 2026

Latest episode

3 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Nov 2026

   Still Becoming: A Girl From Burma

   “Where you begin doesn’t determine where you can go.” What does it mean to leave home at 18 and rebuild your life across three countries? How does migration change not only where we belong, but also who we become? In this episode of Where Stories Move, we welcome Moe, a Burmese-American pharmacist and author, whose journey from Myanmar to Australia and the United States is a powerful story of resilience, identity, independence, and self-discovery. From navigating cultural differences and discrimination to experiencing heartbreak and surviving a life-threatening accident, Moe shares the challenges and transformative experiences that shaped her understanding of home, belonging, and personal freedom. Through her memoir, A Girl from Burma, she reflects on the courage it takes to start over, the strength found in unexpected places, and the realization that our beginnings do not have to define our futures. Moe's story reminds us that migration is more than crossing borders. It is also a journey of becoming, discovering new possibilities, and finding the freedom to define ourselves. 🎧 Listen to her story and discover what it truly means to keep becoming. 📖 Explore Moe's memoir, A Girl from Burma: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPHT6KTQ (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPHT6KTQ)

2. 

   27 Oct 2026

   You Can Begin Again: Immigration, Womenhood and Entrepreneurship

   What happens when you move to a new country with dreams for your future, but find yourself unable to pursue them? In this episode of Where Stories Move, we welcome Aruna, an immigrant entrepreneur whose journey has taken her from India and Nigeria to the United States. When Aruna moved to America in 2004, she faced years of restrictions on her ability to work as a dependent visa holder. But what initially seemed like a period of uncertainty eventually became part of her journey toward entrepreneurship and independence. Together, we explore the challenges of navigating different cultures, the invisible struggles behind immigrant success stories, and what it means to build a life on your own terms. Aruna also shares her experience of receiving an ADHD diagnosis at 40, learning to understand her own way of thinking, and finding the confidence to recognize the value of her work. From questioning cultural expectations to empowering other women through her business, Aruna reminds us that there is no single timeline for success, belonging, or starting again. And after a lifetime of moving between countries, she shares something deeply personal: what it finally means to call a place home. Because migration is not only about where we go, but also about who we become along the way.

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   A Journey from Ukraine to Belgium : When Home Changes

   “Home is not only a place anymore. Ukraine will always be a part of me, but now I also feel that Belgium has become a part of my life.” In this episode of Where Stories Move, we explore with Svitlana, what it means to leave Ukraine and slowly build a new life in Brussels. From language barriers and unfamiliar bureaucracy to finding support, creating new routines, and developing a sense of safety, the conversation reflects on how migration can transform our understanding of home and belonging. A story about starting over, finding connection, and discovering that home can exist in more than one place.

4. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Acceptance Through Freedom That Creates Peace

   What happens when pursuing a dream also means searching for safety, acceptance, and a place to belong? In this episode of Where Stories Move, Sanele reflects on their journey from South Africa to Brussels and how arriving in Europe changed his understanding of migration. Their story moves through discrimination, identity, artistic freedom, community, and the pressure to change oneself in order to fit in. For Sanele, home is not necessarily a country. It can be found in communities that accept us and in music the place where he returns to find comfort, peace, and themself. This conversation explores migration as a complex relationship: one that carries pain, but also creates space for self-discovery, healing, and grace.

5. 

   12 Aug 2026

   A Life Sitting Between Two Chairs

   What happens when home is not one place, but something you keep rebuilding within yourself? In this episode of Where Stories Move, a Migration Nexus podcast series, we speak with Peri, whose story moves between Turkish and German cultures, childhood memories, family, language, identity, and the feeling of being “between chairs.” Through her reflections on growing up between cultures and later moving to Turkey at 19, the conversation explores how migration can shape not only where we live, but how we understand ourselves. Peri reflects on the experience of never feeling fully here or fully there, and on how belonging can become something we slowly build over time. This episode looks at migration not only as movement between countries, but as an inner journey: learning how different cultures live within us, how language carries memory, and how home can become less about a fixed place and more about where we feel understood, safe, and able to breathe.

6. 

   26 Jul 2026

   When Migration Starts Before You: From Delhi To Brussels

   What happens when migration begins before you, and every place you live asks you to become someone new? In this episode of Where Stories Move, a Migration Nexus podcast series, we speak with Sriram, whose story moves across India, the UAE, France, and Brussels. Through his reflections on family, education, work, belonging, and change, the conversation explores how migration can shape not only where we live, but how we understand ourselves. This episode looks at the emotional and personal layers of movement: growing up with family expectations, feeling like an outsider, adapting to different cultures, changing career paths, and learning how to survive in unfamiliar versions of life. Sriram reflects on helplessness, escape, resilience, and the quiet process of becoming someone you did not know you could be. The conversation invites listeners to think about migration not only as crossing borders, but as a long and unfinished process of identity, adaptation, and self understanding. Sometimes, migration starts with a journey to another country. And sometimes, it begins before we are even born, carried through family histories, expectations, and the places that teach us who we are.

7. 

   7 Jul 2026

   From The Eastern Edge Of Asia To Western Europe

   What happens when living abroad changes not only where you are, but how you see yourself? In this episode of Where Stories Move, a Migration Nexus podcast series, we speak with Kana, a Japanese master’s student in architecture who spent one year in Brussels through an exchange program. Through her reflections on Japan, Belgium, language, culture, and belonging, the conversation explores how migration can shift the way we understand home, identity, and the societies we come from. This episode looks at the quiet but powerful moments of living abroad: hearing several languages in one conversation, feeling separated from familiar food and culture, noticing different ways of working and living, and questioning who gets called an “expat” and who gets called an “immigrant.” Kana reflects on how being outside Japan helped her see both her country and herself from a new perspective. The conversation invites listeners to think about migration not only as movement across borders, but as a change in awareness, empathy, and self-understanding. Sometimes, migration begins with a journey to another country. And sometimes, it continues in the way we return to our own culture with new eyes.

8. 

   22 Jun 2026

   Shame On You: Europe's New Return Rules, Return Hubs, And The Politics of Migration

   What happens when migration policy starts seeing people as numbers, not stories? In this episode of Where Stories Move, a Migration Nexus podcast series, we speak with Ayşe Nur Yılmaz, founder of Migration Nexus, about Europe’s new return rules, return hubs, externalisation, and the political language around migration control. This conversation reflects on what becomes invisible when migration is measured mainly through speed, control, return rates, and administrative efficiency. Behind every return decision, there is a person. Behind every procedure, there is a story. Behind every number, there is someone waiting to be seen, heard, believed, or protected. The episode invites listeners to think about migration debates not only through borders and systems, but also through rights, dignity, responsibility, and the human lives that continue behind every policy decision. Where Stories Move is a Migration Nexus podcast on migration, memory, belonging, and the stories people carry with them.

9. 

   11 Jun 2026

   4 Land 1 Identity

   In the first episode of Where Stories Move, we speak with Yelda about migration as an experience that does not end with arrival. Together, we explore whether migration is a journey or a state that continues within a person. From Yelda’s perspective, migration is an ongoing process shaped by memory, cultural richness, transformation, and the stories people carry with them. This episode reflects on how migration leaves deep traces on identity, belonging, and the way people understand both home and themselves.

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