You-Me-We-Us: The 'Become My Home' Movie
January 25 2022
The film is now ready in the context of the website You-Me-We-Us that I have reviewed about the nearly 500.000 people in Thailand who are stateless or who cannot provide complete paperwork. The movie is called 'Becoming home' which I translated into 'Becoming my home'.
The film lasts 38 minutes and is in Thai with English subtitles. It gives a good picture of what these people encounter, but Thailand is on its way to tackling this problem definitively.
This is the link:
https://you-me-we-us.com/becoming-home also viewable on YouTube: https://youtu.be/J-fcvGVJ-us
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What an impressive documentary.
An impressive story indeed! So there are almost 500.000 people.
I've seen a lot of these kinds of documentaries and every time I fall silent. Humanity and how we treat each other, often heartbreaking. It's happening all over the world. Young people to whom you give all the opportunities in the world and who have the right to give their lives the meaning they deserve. The why question, given that this is being neglected and authorities persist in their unwillingness to actually change anything about it, is a legitimate one. Answers, as has often been said, are not forthcoming and frustrate a lot of lives. Where are there a lot of those people who can have a positive contribution and leave this behind with their mind and conscience. In my opinion, where there is a will, there is a way. I know that there are already improvements in Thailand, but it is really not going very well and there is still room for improvement.
More information on this subject in the link. https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/clg/our-city/city-issues/the-importance-of-being-thai-giving-citizenship-where-citizenship-is-due/
*sigh* the virtues (ahem) of bureaucracy and labels, the human being or human measure is too often left behind. This story is not not, but the attention to this remains important, in the hope that one day “stateless persons” will also be regarded as full and treated as such (as a full person).