Callout for interviewees for Season 3. By focusing on interpersonal relationships, this podcast demystifies the immigrant experience and brings previously unheard voices into the mainstream.

Season 3: Register your interest - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S3

How do we search for something we’ve never seen? The last episode of the series sees the Arif whānau reflect on their years in Aotearoa and dream of a better future.

Episode 8: Something Far Greater Than This - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

Arriving from Fiji, newlywed Halima Stewart headed straight to Tapu Te Ranga Marae where she raised three kids with husband Bruce. She talks with her two youngest about navigating different cultures.

Episode 7: Homesick on the Marae - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

In Kirikiriroa, Donally and her father Alfredo discuss parenting that contradicts society’s expectations, how Filipino men are expected to ‘get on with it’, and life after tremendous grief.

Episode 6: My Dad is My Mum - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

Sisters Avi and Eva sit down with their daughters and talk about white men who travel to Indonesia, the fetishisation of Asian women, and leading parallel lives in Whangārei.

Episode 5: Side by Side - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

It took Juliana eight long years to gain residency after moving here from Brazil. She and her mum Nadmea discuss New Zealand’s immigration system, second chances, and Tinder-ing in your 50s.

Episode 4: Red Chicken With the Big Wings - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

After four years studying in Dunedin, Alby has just moved back in with his mum Lina in Naenae. The two of them discuss Lina’s career, Alby’s grief, and who our lives are lived for.

Episode 3: VIP - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

When 11-year-old Anique left Sri Lanka she thought it'd be temporary. Almost two decades later she talks with brother Navin and mum Sushani about guilt, obligation, and what freedom really means.

Episode 2: Independence Is Great But It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

From Botswana to Nelson to Pōneke, Judah and his sons Tafara and Pako have experienced multiple communities. They talk about fruit picking, single dad life, and dreams in different languages.

Episode 1: Not Your White Boy - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S2

In this “bonus” episode of the podcast no one asked for, co-producers and hosts Saraid and Julie talk to their own mums, who hail from Sri Lanka and China respectively.

Episode 9: We Can’t Speak the Same Language - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

2x SEASONS. Immigrant whānau across Aotearoa have frank conversations covering love, ancestry, home, food, expectation &amp; acceptance. Made with the support of NZ On Air.

The Muzondiwa family left Zimbabwe at a time when it was difficult to buy even bread.  They talk colonisation in Africa and Aotearoa, and whether finding a “true” cultural identity is possible.

Episode 8: Nothing Other than Beauty and Hope - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Ty Meng’s parents escaped the Cambodian genocide and went on to raise five children in Lower Hutt.  Three generations of the Meng family consider how their family’s history lingers in the present.

Episode 7: Sucking on Chicken Feet - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

The Solomons thought leaving South Africa meant leaving entrenched white supremacy.  They discuss how much of this they still found in NZ, and what they are learning about gender and queerness.

Episode 6: The Best Street in Birkdale - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Sue left Korea with one life in mind but ended up with something very different.  Mum and daughter Bokyong talk divorce, starting over, and why rural towns can be kinder to immigrants than the city.

Episode 5: Actually I’m Korean - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Aliyaan, 13, and his mum Masooma are Pakistani Muslims living in East Tāmaki. They discuss being a migrant kid, the March 15 terrorist attack and how their lives have and haven’t changed.

Episode 4: It Was Clearly a Joke - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Francisco and Vibeke are parents to teenagers who regularly switch between Argentinian/Dutch cultures. They talk about why coming from different countries means navigating more than just language.

Episode 3: Argumentative is an English Concept - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Joseph and Grace Trinidad talk about making their “own little Philippines” in the Hawke’s Bay, why Filipinos love competition, and what it means to be both queer and Catholic in 2019.

Episode 2: Really Nice Potato Sacks - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

In Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, Tongan grandmother Liliani and her daughter Kesaia find that even though they talk every day on the phone (and have for 17 years), they have more in common than they thought.

Episode 1: A Dress and a Cardigan for Mele - Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Immigrant whanau across Aotearoa have frank conversations covering love, ancestry, home, food, expectation, and acceptance.

Trailer: Introducing Conversations With My Immigrant Parents - Listen Now on RNZ.co.nz

Great and refreshing stuff, either as a recent, first or 100th generation immigrant to NZ. We all came from so where else. Each of these stories is a bit of our one.

Just sooo nice

Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

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