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Migrate: A trait shared by all peoples, across continents and throughout history. It reminds us that humanity, time and time again, returns to a nomadic nature driven by the sheer need to live, or survive. When life can no longer be sustained where one stands, one must move on. Exodus and diasporas. Gastarbeiters, OFWs, dekasseguis, balseros, and retirantes. Between the concrete and the ethereal, fear and hope, anxiety and joy, the migrant is someone fragmented. In the new land, countless fragments converge, merging into a mosaic of disparate pieces – which perhaps raises the question: after all, who are we, Canadians, by birth and by experience?