kể chuyện nhà (stories of home)

What is kể chuyện nhà ?

kể chuyện nhà is a research project exploring how a transnational family makes home in the aftermath of the war in Vietnam and overseas displacement and resettlement. This project celebrates the practices of (re)making home. How do people maintain and (re)create family and community? What are some traditions and celebrations that families continued or invented to make a home? What are some of the challenges and struggles in keeping a sense of home?

Why this project?

Sharing stories of home making after displacement is important to document and to uplift wisdom on life making.

The overall research study will add to the existing knowledge on refugee and migrant peoples, and challenge dominant existing disempowering narratives.

Refugee and displaced peoples are sources of wisdom and knowledge on surviving and thriving.

Ways to get involved!

  • Record your story with our team in an interview

    • You can choose if you want to record a story for your own private keeping, or to donate your story to the project, which will be added to other stories to inform existing knowledge on refugee and displaced peoples.

  • Make a short digital story

    • Based on your recorded interview, we will provide you with the digital skills training to create a short creative digital story that focuses on any part of your overall story. These digital stories can be kept for your own private keeping or donated to the project. 

Sample Digital Story

In “Trầu Cau”, Anh reflects on the power of stories in her family and community.

The storymaking team

  • Anh Ngo

  • Sonia Meerai

  • Lisa Truong

  • Sayak Sneddon-Ghosal

  • Wendy Nguyen

  • Sangyoo Lee

  • We arrive at this project as people connected to the experiences of displacement and migration through various ways. This project is a space for us to share the stories of our loved one’s courage, wisdom, and care in creating “home”. These stories honour their experiences and serve as a instructions for living.

  • Storytelling is a way to connect past and present, the personal and collective. Stories have the power to shape our subjectivity - how we view ourselves in relation to how others may view us. In the context of displacement and migration, stories have the power to shape policies and practices around the peoples impacted by global conflict as structured within imperialism and colonialism. This project creates a space for peoples entangled with displacement and migration to tell, and by doing so, reclaim stories of their experiences within the context of migration and resettlement. 

  • For the people who interact with this project, as storytellers and listeners, we hope that these stories create an opening for you to hear stories of refugee displacement and migration differently, and to tell your own stories of your lived experiences differently. We hope that in doing so, the multiplicities of migrant stories are seen, heard, and honoured.

Funding Acknowledgement