Week 1 - Introduction ft. Willy Brodus https://youtu.be/3OLSBzLoH4M Week 2 - Gender Equality ft. Roslina Sawitri https://youtu.be/IoSG8jS7Ehs Week 2 - Gender Equality ft. Susi Haryanti https://youtu.be/lbhb3bRtbLg Week 3 - Vulnerable Sectors ft. Annisa Rochma https://youtu.be/1ifgyeNUMOQ Week 4 - Migration and Displacement ft. Susi Haryanti https://youtu.be/1UrLRaqLB2s Week 5 - Migration and Climate Change ft. Willy Brodus … Continue reading Recorded sessions (Units 1-19)

Teaching English to Migrant Activists ft. Sisilana D. M. Poyk, Harumi M. A. Yamin, & Herlin P. I. Destari https://youtu.be/9nsMh8BtJkc Gender activism in Latin America ft Avril Murillo https://youtu.be/OtWJzz4uhtY Resisting Gender-based Violence in Conflict Settings ft. Iyala Saadi https://youtu.be/sgKORoDxU2U Hope as Resistance ft. Bareera Rauf https://youtu.be/Qykm9-I5B8o Present with Purpose ft. Satwika Nindya Kirana https://youtu.be/vQx7ZuaCmAs Words … Continue reading Guest Talks – English for Migrant Activists

Group 1 (tutored by Mr. Willy Brodus & Mr. Hot Maringan Samosir) https://youtu.be/_MuKlIyB-rA Group 2 (tutored by Ms. Roslina Sawitri & Ms. Ashanti Dayani Ajengpitaloka) https://youtu.be/i0P0B1BCud0 Group 3 (tutored by Mr. Ricky Raymon & Ms. Ririn Syahriani) https://youtu.be/oVjGfviuem8 Group 4 (tutored by Ms. Imamatul Khair & Ms. Tri Annisa Fajri) https://youtu.be/E8-IXC09_jM Group 5 (tutored by … Continue reading Final Group Projects – English for Migrant Activists

We ran weekly writing workshops where participants learned about how to narrate their feelings and thoughts in the form of prose and poetry. More specifically, participants were introduced to the main elements of literary writing, such as theme, plot, characters and characterization, symbolism, point of view, tone, and so on. By the end of these … Continue reading Literary writing workshops for migrant workers (2016)

I won the 2024 Andrew Pickup Global Citizens Award, in addition to the Turing scheme award 2024. These awards allowed me to carry out a six-week research placement at the Migrant Writers of Singapore (MWS), a Singapore-based migrant- led initiative aiming to promote a sense of collectivity across the citizen-migrant divide through the shared love … Continue reading Andrew Pickup Global Citizens Award 2024

I won the 2024 Turing scheme award, managed by the University of Sussex. The award went toward covering my living expenses during a six-week fieldwork and research placement at the Migrant Writers of Singapore (MWS), a Singapore-based migrant-led initiative aiming to promote a sense of collectivity across the citizen-migrant divide through the shared love for … Continue reading Turing scheme award 2024

My essay was one of the five winners of the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) Short Essay Competition 2024, which saw over 300 submissions from researchers based in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Essays submitted for this competition discussed a wide range of issues broadly categorized into i) migration in politics and politics in migration, ii) … Continue reading Mixed Migration Review 2024 Prize

The idea for this English course for migrant activists has been on my mind for a long time—since around 2018, if I remember right. As a migration researcher and practitioner, I met so many brilliant activists who had so much to offer but were often left out of important spaces and discussions just because they … Continue reading Teaching resources for “English for migrant activists”