This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled in Autumn Term 2023.
Join us for this film screening and Q&A event of the film HEARTBOUND with the director Dr Sine Plambech.
In a small fishing community on the west coast of Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men. Twenty-five years ago there were none, but Sommai, a former sex worker from northeast Thailand. She became a matchmaker for lonely Danish locals and impoverished women from her village in Thailand.
At first, these stories seem straightforward: white men from a wealthy country marrying Asian women looking for a way out of poverty, but a different, far more complex tale unfolds.
Over ten years, we follow the migrant women in a personal chronicle exploring questions of migration, borders, sex work, family, belonging and love.
Destinies, dreams and needs are intimately and attentively woven together in an existential and global migration journey.
Meet our speakers and chair
Dr. Sine Plambech is an anthropologist, film director, and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. She is currently a Visiting Professor at LSE. As a visual anthropologist Sine specializes in the areas of migration, borders, smuggling, trafficking, and the sex industry. She works and films in migrant communities, border areas, red-light districts, and along migrant routes in West Africa, Asia, Europe’s southern border, and Denmark. With the multi-award-winning films, Heartbound Sine Plambech stepped firmly onto the international documentary film scene.
Webpage - @sineplambech
Dr. Niina Vuolajärvi is an Assistant Professor in International Migration at the European Institute. Her interdisciplinary research is situated in the fields of migration, feminist and socio-legal studies.
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