Forced Migration Online: Blog

The film Youth as Evaluators: Contested Spaces and Identity is now available to view online. In this documentary, young people talk about their countries and the issues that young people face there. The documentary was filmed during a gathering of young people involved in Public Achievement and similar programmes around the world (including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Finland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland) at the Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland 11 - 22 August 2005. The focus of the event was on training participants as evaluators of their youth programmes at home, and on creating an international network of young people interested in improving young people’s experience of being civic co-creators.

• Youth as Evaluators: Contested Spaces and Identity

The web page for the video Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur diaspora has been updated to feature the interviews as 5 individual films. These can be viewed in a web browser (QuickTime or Flash format) or via iTunes.

• Lost Nation (full film)
• Riza Bekin, Istanbul
  Discusses personal migration and current human rights in China
• Anwar Rahman, Geneva
  Discusses personal migration and Uyghurs in Pakistan
• Enver Tohti, London
  Discusses personal migration and Uyghur Chinese relations
• Gulamettin Emet, New York
  Discusses his personal migration in 1940s to India, then Turkey and Germany before being the first Uyghur to settle in the USA
• Enver Can, Munich
  Discusses personal migration and treatment of Uyghurs in Afghanistan and China.

One of the other web projects that Forced Migration Online are currently involved with is Mursi Online. The website officially went live today and was developed by the FMO team at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and funded by the Christensen Fund of Palo Alto, California. The website has many features including video clips and an image gallery. Mursi Online is intended to be a source of information and news about the Mursi, and a place where the pressures and challenges facing them today can be described and discussed, increasingly, it is hoped, by Mursi themselves.

• Mursi Online

The film Frontiers of the San Francisco Treaty in Hokkaido is now available to view online. In this documentary, former residents of the Kurile islands talk about their migration from the islands and their hopes of returning to their homeland. The film is supplemented by audio interviews with key academics on the subject. The resource page for the film is also available in Japanese and Russian.

The video section of the website has now been updated. The film Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur diaspora has been launched following a preview screening at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Other enhancements to the video section include additional formats, in addition to QuickTime streaming versions which we use to deliver video for almost all possible bandwidths, the films are now in Flash and iPod format. The videos are also available for free via the iTunes store, or you can subscribe to the video RSS feed.

Please let us know if you have any comments about the videos on FMO.

There will be a screening of the film ‘Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur Diaspora’ at the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, on Thursday, 31st May 6pm-7.30pm.

In the film, Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).

After the screening the film will be available along with other videos on the Forced Migration Online website.

For more information please visit:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/uyghur/