The Train to My Hometown, Screening of a documentary by Ai Xiaoming

Rethinking Labor Migration: Migrant workers in China and in the U.S., Panel discussion

The film will be followed by a panel discussion.

Film summary: At the beginning of 2008, the major traffic line that links South, Central and North China, was paralyzed by a snowstorm. Eager to get home before the eve of the Spring Festival, 200,000 travelers, most of them migrant workers, were stranded at the Guangzhou railway station. This film tells the stories of migrant workers affected by the disaster, and how they and the soldiers got through the hardships together.


Panel session: Rethinking Labor Migration: Migrant workers in China and in the U.S.

Panelists: Abby Chen, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Eriberto Fernandez, Instituto Laboral De La Raza


Presented by Bay Area Video Coalition and W.T.Chan Fellowships Program, cosponsored by Center for Chinese Studies of UC-Berkeley and Oakland Asian Culture Center.


Time and Date: Thursday, November 19th, 7:15pm~9:00pm
Place: Bay Area Video Coalition, Second Floor, 2727 Mariposa Street, San Francisco