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October 2, 2025
Film Screening of a documentary film "Home in the Making" with the director of the film, Megha Wadhwa on May 17 at ICC, Sophia University
From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2025/04/17
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Presents a screening of
Home in the Making
A film by Megha Wadhwa based on a research project led by five women exploring skilled migration in Asia.
May 17, 2025 (Sat)
16:00-17:30 (JST)
Room 309, 3F, Building 2, Sophia University
In person only
Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/
A collaboration between five female migration studies scholars and seven Asian migrants in South Korea, Singapore, and Japan. The film examines migrants' personal and professional journeys, their aspirations for staying or leaving their host country and the challenges they face. Through their quest for a place to call 'home', the documentary offers a perspective on belonging, identity, and resilience.
The film is a part of project 'Qualification and skill in the migration process of foreign workers in Asia' (QuaMaFA) and funded by Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF)
- Director: Megha Wadhwa
- Research and Camera: Megha Wadhwa, Ruth Achenbach, Joohyun Justine Park, Helena Hof, Aimi Muranaka
- Editor: Megha Wadhwa
- Co-Editor: Nour Yazbeck
- Sound Design: Francois Yazbeck
- Project Support: Filmmaking for Fieldwork
- Duration: 47mins
- Language and Subtitles: English
- Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1062517134
Directors Bio - Megha Wadhwa is a filmmaker, anthropologist, and a writer whose work explores migration, memory, identity, and belonging. She is currently based in Japan, where she serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo. Originally from New Delhi, she lived in Tokyo for nearly 15 years before moving to Berlin, where she was affiliated with Free University of Berlin from 2021 to 2024. As part of the research project Qualifications and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia--supported by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)--her work focused on Indian Professionals in Japan and Singapore: Migration Trends, Labor Market Integration, and Challenges. In addition to her academic contributions, she led the visual storytelling component of the project, bringing together the broader narratives of Asian migration to Japan, Singapore, and South Korea through film. Megha is the author of Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious and Working Worlds (Routledge, 2021), and a regular contributor to The Japan Times. Trained in visual ethnography and fieldwork-based storytelling, Megha brings intimate, underrepresented narratives to the screen. Her films include Daughters from Afghanistan (2019), Indian Cooks in Japan (2020), and Finding Their Niche: Unheard Stories of Migrant Women (2022).
This event is organized by Magha Wadhwa (Assistant professor of Anthropology, Sophia University) and David Slater (Professor of Anthropology, Sophia University) for the ICC Collaborative Project "Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo: An Oral Narrative Approach"
Approved by ssjmod at 03:37 PM