The migrant worker issue isn’t as contemporary as we think. Hundreds of years ago, when our country was beginning to be known as Singapore, countless of immigrants sailed to our shores to put down roots—either willingly or unwillingly. Authors Pallavi Gopinath Aney and Wesley Leon Aroozoo discuss how history comments on current issues of migration, what the Singapore Dream means to the community, and whether it is all that it’s thought out to be.
Pallavi Gopinath Aney is a partner at an international law firm in Singapore, and a mentor to young lawyers specifically focusing on diversity initiatives in a changing world. Originally from Kerala and Delhi, she has called Singapore home since 2006. Her writing often tackles the immigrant experience. Kopi, Puffs and Dreams is her first novel.
Wesley Leon Aroozoo is a filmmaker from 13 Little Pictures and a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts. He is the author of the novella Bedok Reservoir (2012), which was also adapted for the stage and performed at Goodman Arts Centre. A feature documentary companion to his second non-fiction novella, I Want to Go Home (2017), had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival.
VENUE: Epigram Books (Facebook Live / Zoom)
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DATE AND TIME
28 Aug 2021, 7pm–8pm