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EDITOR’S NOTE With the seasons changing, and the darkness stretching longer, sometimes it can be hard to remember that the long distances we’ve crossed to be here have meaning.

In exploring the theme ‘migrations,’ what emerged was the realization that migration exists in continuum, and in many forms: flight patterns and movement of migratory birds, the ways in which our stomachs hunger for the cuisines of a distant home and the different time zones we cross again and again to be with our loved ones.

Beyond the physical boundaries traversed, migration is also about the ways in which it opens us up for the world’s taking.

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CORRECTION A November 21 news story misstated that VP Academic and University Affairs Kamil Kanji secured $50,000 in funding for the AMS Food Bank. In actuality, Kanji secured $350,000 in funding. The Ubyssey regrets this error.

The November 21 issue also included a solution for that issue’s crossword, instead of the October 30 solution. Both solutions have been included in this issue.

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‘All the birds have a story’: Migratory birds and the people that watch them WORDS and photos BY Jerry Wong and Isa S You

Greater scaup | Jerry Wong

A UBC PhD student in biochemistry and a member of the UBC Birding Club, Nguyen began taking photos of birds after taking a class during his undergrad at the University of Toronto that had an assignment about identifying birds in the wild.

In November, the migratory season is close to over with almost all species in their wintering territories, yet Nguyen still comes out with his camera to capture the birds he’ll see until early April when more birds migrate back.

“You kind of missed the warbler migration,” said Nguyen, “so no pretty songbirds.

It’s mainly water birds [now].”

Jerry Wong

Barrow’s goldeneye | Jerry Wong

It’s a windy day at the Stanley Park Seawall. Kha Nguyen, a wildlife photographer, observes that there aren’t as many birds as he expected. He points out two buffleheads in the fenced-off swimming pool at Second Beach, cautioning that they’re shy creatures. Shooting with our cameras through the barbed wire fence a few feet away is probably the closest we’ll be able to get to them.

The odds of seeing birds depend on dynamic factors like the weather, the time of day, temperature and wind speed. For Nguyen, the spontaneity is exciting — “You never know what you’re gonna get.”

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Greater scaup | ISA S YOU

Hooded Merganser | ISA S YOU

In the Lower Mainland, many water birds come from the Arctic tundra in winter. They move long distances to the south where it’s warmer to forage for more food.

“A lot of people like to call it ‘weird duck time’ because you get all these colourful ducks that come from the north and they spend their winters here on the south,” said Frank Lin, a friend of Nguyen and an environmental educator with the Stanley Park Ecology Society. “Some of them use this place as a stopover site. So they don’t always stay here in the winter, but others do. That really depends on not just the species, but the individuals.”

There are four major bird migration routes, called flyways, that span from North America to South America. UBC and the Lower Mainland fall under the Pacific Flyway, which stretches along the west coast from Alaska to Patagonia.

“Birds don’t like to cross big spaces or big obstacles,” said Claudie Pageau, a second-year PhD student in the department of zoology and researcher at the Irwin Lab at UBC. “Birds don’t like to cross big spans of water since they can’t land in an emergency, so they’ll move following the land.”

Pageau said there are two main reasons for birds to migrate. Many birds travel up north for nestings as “there is more space available, maybe for a nest

but also because there would be less predators for them.”

The search for food also drives their journeys, which take some birds as far as South America. In the summer, they feed on abundant BC insects and other food sources.

“But then as fall comes in, there’s less insects so there’s less resources for them to use. So that’s when they have to leave somewhere else … where they can find those resources for feeding.”

They’re born with the knowledge that when winter comes, they’ll have to fly.

“As the youngs are out of the nest and ready to go, they just know where to go … I think that’s pretty impressive that they have that capacity to do that,” said Pageau.

In addition to direction, the young birds also need to know when to migrate.

Though as climate change shifts species ranges, their internal clock and the life cycles of their prey are growing out of sync.

“I think because of the climate crisis, that timing [for food web interactions] is changing,” said Pageau, “but birds are still migrating at the same time, which means that there’s going to be a [phenological] mismatch … if they’re going to arrive there for the resources.”

Northern shoveler | ISA S YOU

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Surf scoter | ISA S YOU

for close to 30 years. She was scouting at the beach with a couple of bird watching friends completing a survey for Birds Canada. She paused as we spoke to confirm that a bird passing by was a rock dove with a companion.

“What drew me to birds and migratory birds is … their life stories,” said Marg.

She described the western sandpiper, which flies up to the Arctic during nesting season. The females leave the nesting grounds first. Then, peregrine falcons prey on the young sandpipers as they fly south. Some falcons get enough to eat to survive till next season — and some young sandpipers successfully escape to warmer climates.

Birds form complex relationships and rivalries that few people understand, and travel to distant shores that many Vancouverites will never see. The observant birder can catch a glimpse though, and to Marg, that’s enough.

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Glaucous-winged gulls & short billed gull | Jerry wong

Canada geese | JERRY WONG

A week after our trip to Stanley Park, we made our way down to Boundary Bay near White Rock, which had been designated as a part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.

Upon first glance, the beach was empty. But as we scrambled over the pebbles and walk closer to the edge of the water, we found flecks of black and grey spotting the waves in the distance.

With a pair of binoculars, the trained eyes can identify the waterbirds. Once you start to pay attention to birds, you can’t unsee the difference.

We overheared a group of birders as they identify the shapes in the water as surf scoters.

Birders get interested in bird watching for various reasons. For some, it’s a way to feel connected to nature. For some, it’s about the birds themselves.

Marg, a volunteer with the Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society, has been a birder

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A community locus: Past and present migratory stories through the International Food Court WORDS and photos BY ISA S YOU

Some of the best food at UBC is underground. Down the stairs into the basement of a beige and unassuming shopping complex, and past heavy black emergency doors, lies the International Food Court. Students can find a plethora of food options at comparatively affordable prices and generous portion sizes in the underbelly of University Plaza.

The aroma of spices cuts through the otherwise stale bunker air. Underneath the flickering fluorescent lighting, the lunchtime rush begins, with long lines forming and snaking around the colourfully laminated seating areas. There’ll be a couple of construction workers and UBC staff members, but the majority of the clientele are students, as testified by the snippets of conversations about school assignments and

post-grad plans you’d overhear if you payed close enough attention.

Binyam Mesfun is the owner of the Donair Town, the first stall you’ll see after exiting the stairs. Amid the frenzy, he chats with a customer about the weather, scooping heaping piles of food into a white takeout box.

Mesfun has been running his joint in the International Food Court since 2008.

After leaving his home country of Eritrea for Sudan, then immigrating to Canada by way of Alberta, Mesfun and his wife decided to start their own business instead of working for someone else.

“I can do whatever I want to.” They can’t close up shop any time they want, but he enjoys the freedom.

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Easily missable from the outside, the International Food Court’s existence is spread by word of mouth. It is composed of nine storefronts and currently includes a variety of cuisines such as malatang, donair, sushi and of course, Chinese takeout.

For Erainne Yuting, a third-year business and computer science student, the options available are appreciated since her meal choices are often spontaneous.

“I’ll just decide when I’m here. So I love the fact that [the] food court can offer me that many choices. And for me to think about ‘Oh, well, what’s my mood today and what [do] I want?’”

Born in Shandong, China and having relocated to Singapore with her family when she was 14, Yuting reminisces about the hawker centres of Singapore, where one can get authentic food for cheap.

Her order the day we spoke was a combo from Foodiepower, which consisted of braised pork belly and greens over rice.

Many students go to the International Food Court for comfort food. Over My Home Cuisine’s house special pork, mapo tofu and fried noodles, second-year student Chantal Yao described how in her first year at UBC, she frequented the food court because she missed her father’s cooking.

“I think part of it for me is the familiarity of the foods. I might not have necessarily had these dishes made this way before. But something about the way that they’re made, or the style, just feels really familiar.”

Growing up in Kelowna, at one point Yao was the only Chinese student in an elementary school of 600. For her, coming to the International Food Court is a chance to practice her Mandarin and feel connected to her heritage. “[It] makes me feel a little bit more Chinese … because I don’t get much practice outside of Chinese class,” she said.

Yao is an Asian studies major with a focus on China, and has a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian migration studies.

“I came to UBC because it’s a very good school ratings wise, and because it’s situated in Vancouver, a place that’s so diverse. It has a lot of other Chinese people. I wanted to learn more about multiculturalism and Chinese diaspora,” said Yao. She’s found that her experiences growing up Chinese Canadian have been very different from some of her peers that grew up in the Lower Mainland.

“There’s so many different ways of existing, even if you’re from the Chinese community, Chinese Canadian community,” she said. “There’s so many different backgrounds and different upbringings.”

Yao jokes the diversity of her hometown can be measured by the increase of bubble tea shops that show up in Kelowna.

“When I was a kid, there was one place in Kelowna, that was a specialty bubble tea shop run by this Taiwanese lady. And by the time I was in middle school another one opened up, and five years after that, more and more bubble tea shops kept popping up around town.”

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The businesses at the International Food Court form a similar microcosm reflective of the demand from the customer base, with local franchises of international chains like 101 BOBA and Chirpyhut Fried Chicken opening up.

It’s a competitive industry. In the seven years since Kung Fu Noodle opened up shop, 11 other businesses have come and folded, according to its owner and manager King, who only gave his first name.

“We make Chinese food, “ said King in Mandarin, “but there are a lot of different types of Chinese food. If you think about Chinese takeout, it’s got a long history here. A hundred years ago when the Taishanese migrants came over to

build the railroad, Chinese takeout began. To the locals here, Chinese takeout is equivalent to Chinese cuisine. But that’s not true, Chinese cuisine covers a wide range of food.”

Lisa Wang, owner of My Home Cuisine, the longest standing vendor in the International Food Court, said the business has made adjustments to the menu based on customer feedback.

“We’ve added some Western style Chinese food, like sweet and sour pork and ginger beef. Southerners, like Cantonese people and people from the Jiangzhe region, they like eating sweet food,” said Wang in Mandarin.

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Having been in the food court since 2005, My Home Cuisine is the anchor of the space. Wang said there are students who graduated in the early 2000s, who’ve returned to eat with their new families in tow.

“Sometimes it makes me tear up, because it’s so dear to see them bring their family. They always say they’re back to reminisce about the past,” said Wang.

Gavin Fung, who stood beside me while I interviewed Wang, related to the feeling. A Sauder student hailing from a small town in Alberta, he spent his childhood in his family’s buffet style restaurant.

And yes, Cantonese people really do like sweet foods, he confirmed, as he pointed to the sweet and sour pork in his takeout box. For Fung, his love for the food court is less about the food itself and more about the people there.

“What keeps drawing me back is actually just seeing people eating around. Because when people order food they switch to their native tongue, people serving them recognize them, so they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re back again … What can I get you, the usual? ’ That kind of warms me up, warms my soul a bit, because my mom would do the same thing,” he said. U

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The long way home WORDS and photos BY FIONA SJAUS, JERRY WONG AND ISA S YOU We don’t always think of students as migrants. Their stay is considered temporary — they can become migrants once they graduate and start applying for permanent residency, or get a full-time job. But students, international students in particular, are migrating every time a new semester starts. How do they navigate the space between home, where they are from, and home, where they are now?

Oliver Sage In daily life, our bodies and minds are constantly in motion. Stuck on a plane for long hours at a time is an opportunity to sit with your thoughts, levitating above everything that distracts you from them.

For nutrition sciences master’s student Oliver Sage, this is an uncomfortable experience, worsened by the tiring discomfort of staying in one place for a long time.

“You’re stuck in the moment, in the present. And it feels like that’s often when things come into your head — did I finish this?

Where am I heading in life existentially?” Sage said. “You can’t get into comfort until you’ve landed and even if you find that [comfort], you probably have another flight.”

And Sage often does, with stopovers in Toronto or Copenhagen. It’s a feeling he said is compatible with a marathon or a climb, where the athlete accepts the thoughts that cross their mind until the feeling of relief washes over them upon arrival to their destination.

Sage said that the tense experience is only exacerbated by flight delays and complications.

For him, home is Brussels, Belgium where he spent much of his childhood and where his parents expect him to be there for the holidays. “[Belgium is] the closest thing I would call home because my family’s there. My siblings live in different parts of Europe, but generally around Christmas, that’s when we all come to Belgium.”

Sage completed his undergrad in the Netherlands before com-

ing to Vancouver where, he said, if you search up the city online it’s synonymous with West Coast vistas of mountains.

“Talking to my friends and asking [for] their opinions, they said ‘You have to move there. It’d be an amazing opportunity’ … I found out that Vancouver was a very livable city,” Sage continued. “And UBC just really caught my eye.”

For Sage, home isn’t just one place — it’s a heritage that goes beyond the borders of his homeland.

Sage is also home with his mother’s Finnish roots. In the Nordic countries, everyone knows about a Finnish cartoon called Moomin.

“The characters look like these little white hippopotamuses, but they’re actually trolls,” Sage explained. The comic has since been animated into a show in Japan.

“It’s an interesting mix of cultures,” said Sage. “When you watch them, you can watch them from when you’re a kid to when you’re older because the stories are very relatable, and they always have these nice messages [about] kindness and adventure.”

Sage holds cups with the caricatures painted on them as close keepsakes, dishes that he used in Belgium that materialize his Finnish half — they hold both memories and history.

Sage finds home in the synthesis of the many things that piece him together. Being only weeks away from graduating, he does not know what’s in store for the months ahead as he considers applying for either a PhD in nutrition, or a dietetics credential, but he knows he’s looking for adventure a long way away from home. U

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Victoria Sin The flight between Vancouver and Hong Kong can range from 12 to over 30 hours, depending on layovers and connections. For Victoria Sin, the lead up to these long-haul flights during the holidays is always stressful.

“Every time, a couple days before, I start frantically preparing everything,” she said.

Sin keeps all of her documentation, like passports, in a little pouch and makes sure she carries it with her when she travels home.

“I think this really encapsulates the mental struggles of the amount of things you have to prepare before you take that journey here or back. I like to make a lot of checklists, because I’m afraid by the time I get to the airport and in the gate, if I forget anything, that’s too far gone.”

Sin is a fourth-year commerce student, minoring in Asian Canadian and Asian migration studies. As part of the Chinese diaspora from Hong Kong, her family immigrated to Vancouver and later migrated back to Hong Kong in the late 1990s where she grew up.

“By tuition status, I’m a domestic student,” said Sin. “I grew up in Hong Kong and then I moved here for university. So by that definition, I would kind of count myself as an international student.”

Recalling her first memory of coming to Vancouver when she was a child, Sin found the city stuck with her and helped her make the choice to come to UBC. “It wasn’t as dense and it just felt different, like a breath of fresh air,” she said. “Then when I did come here, in my first year of university, I felt more almost like at peace with my identity —

which is kind of interesting because it’s a completely new environment.”

While Sin is in Vancouver, her parents send her packages with treats and letters.

“It’s nice to see a reminder of things that my parents said to me. Even though we text, it’s nice to have a physical reminder,” she said.

Seeing her family and friends when she returns makes the distance worth it.

“I know that when I step out of the gate I’ll see my parents.

They usually come pick me up so that makes me really excited,” she said.

Despite this, Sin carries mixed feelings when she travels back home.

“Sometimes I get scared going back where I have to hide pieces of myself or how I’ve grown because I feel like people back home expect me to be a certain way that I was before I moved away.”

Sin said many UBC students are also from Hong Kong which makes the process of going home easier for her.

“The widespread pattern of travel, just people from Hong Kong and here, allows for so many direct flights. It’s also such a privilege for me to have friends who are also travelling together so that it’s less lonely or less scary.”

Regardless of time zones, long airport lines and being away from her family, Sin is grateful for the experience she’s had.

“I think I’m very lucky to also just be able to call both places home and feel like travelling between home and home. It’s like a really complicated thought process but it’s great to feel [to] some degree comfortable between those places.” U

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Mina Leghari Mina Leghari is far away from home. And there’s no reminder like the first step she takes out of the airport, when the humidity of Dubai hits.

“Even the air is different. The sun [in Vancouver] is so warm and weirdly orange. I feel like in Dubai it’s like a beam and beats at you. And it’s so hot and it’s so bright,” said Leghari, a thirdyear psychology and philosophy student.

There’s always an adjustment period when Leghari goes home. “It takes me a while to get used to even my bed … It feels a little bit off.”

Leghari was born in Toronto and moved to Dubai when she was in the fourth grade. She makes the trip home twice a year.

“I think when I’m in Vancouver, I’m always like, ‘Oh, I’d love to stay for the summer and just see what it’s like.’ But then I think when it’s getting close to summer I’m so homesick,” she said.

The transition from leaving home was especially difficult in her first year of university. In the absence of her two brothers, parents and cat, the quiet of her dorm room took time to adjust to.

“It was kind of the realization that I can’t just go knock on someone’s door and be like, ‘Hey, let’s play Mario Kart or something’ … it’s just me on my own.”

The 12 hour time difference makes it hard to forget her family is on the other side of the world. “It was just a very lonely experience at first. When your family’s all you’ve grown up around

and are the people that you spend time with the most and then they’re not there anymore,” said Leghari.

Direct flights to Dubai are scarce, so her trips take 14 and a half hours each way. She says the return trips to Vancouver are so much more exhausting once the excitement of being home wears off.

Leghari said that they call for hours, showing her the cat and updating her on new plants in the garden. “I​​t just [makes] me feel like … okay, they’re not that far away. Like, they’re still there, I can still see everybody and I can still talk to everybody.”

Among Leghari’s keepsakes from home is a dodgeball 7s shirt, from a dodgeball game between the students and the teachers, which reminds her of her high school friends and the happy times back home.

Another treasured possession is a deck of cards, bought on a going-away trip to a waterpark and aquarium in Dubai. It’s a reminder of a fun memory and her relationship with her dad.

“The reason that I really got into card games was because of my dad.” Her father collects card games and they used to play card games every night prior to her departure.

Leghari said while it can be hard, her parents’ pride in her helps her feel secure in her decision to move so far from home for a degree.

“That honestly helps a lot, knowing that my dad is really proud of me for doing something like this.” U

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Our Migration Stories What does it mean to leave home and build another life elsewhere? How do echoes of our migratory paths reverberate in the present? How have our and our family’s migratory experiences shaped us as people?

Here are some of the migration stories of contributors at the Ubyssey told through photos. U

When I was a kid, we used to get bootleg copies of the Chinese New Year broadcast on CCTV to stay connected to our culture. And we’d watch them over and over again, no matter the time of year. | Isa S You

Like many immigrant grandparents, my nana is a product of past cultural stereotypes and generally stays out of the kitchen. In contrast, his love language is peeling and chopping endless amounts of fruit. | Maya Rochon

A bag of frozen perogies, a jar of Harry Hill mustard, a navy FR hoodie, a country playlist and this tattoo. These are the only material things that remind me that I left everything and everyone behind to be here. | Lauren Kasowski

For my family, migration has been a history of separations and tentative reunions. Three generations of San Francisco Suens having dim sum as seen through the lens of myself, a Vancouver Suen. | Natalie Choo

Sitting in one of my many moving boxes that just got unpacked after my family’s move from Calgary, AB to Hood River, OR. This is an iconic photo we take almost every time we move. | Zoe Wagner

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An old photo of my sister and I in a frame that we cherish from Seoul, South Korea to Vancouver, Canada. | Sarah Kim

The warmest moment for my family — assembled by the tree in our first snowy winter together in Vancouver. | Jerry Wong ADVERTISEMENT

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29. Depicts unfairly, as data 33. Good dishes, perhaps 35. “There’s no place like” 36. Lacking a key, musically 37. Jazz-band cue 39. Boeing 747, e.g.

40. Crowd sounds 44. Hilton competitor 46. Pennsylvania neighbor 47. Defunct ice cream brand, American spelling 50. Kim K’s clothing brand 51. Gulliver’s Travels group (or a particular search engine, if there were more than one) 52. Dmitri’s refusal 54. High-tech med. test

55. Barely scrape (by) 57. Jamaicans with dreads 62. “The ones over here,” for New Yorkers (homophone of “Disco Duck” artist Rick) 64. Locale known for its hospitality 67. Length x width = 68. Actor Thicke 69. “Guitar Town” country singer Steve 70. River of Belgium 71. AB positive, e.g.

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recreated for Xbox (2 wds) 26. Spoiled rotten, maybe 28. “Check this out!”

29. Command in a library 30. Japanese pond fish 31. 911 call respondent 32. Goofball 34. Document certifier with a seal 38. California-Nevada resort lake 41. Fancy tuna 42. Edge of a canyon 43. Mariner’s distress signal 45. Rodent in a Captain & Tennille tune 47. When to work out 48. Crew-team members 49. “That makes sense now” 50. Expressed

53. Do something wrong 56. Slippery as a fish 58. Constellation unit 59. Ripped (up) 60. Hole-punching tools 61. 1991 video game debut, briefly (Anagram of NESS) 63. Droopy part of a basset hound 65. Tree liquid 66. Number of women Canadian prime ministers

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2. Sound of a stone falling into a lake 3. Panasonic competitor 4. “Hello, It’s Me” singer Rundgren 5. Cooks, as clams 6. Abbr. in car ads 7. Toilet, to a Brit 8. Explosive sound 9. Little green soldiers from Toy Story 10. The Sun’s name 11. Goldberg whose first name sounds like a cheer 12. Neat ___ (very tidy) 13. Fictional Geller sibling 18. Sandwich bread 22. One way to get to work 25. Classic basketball game COURTESY BESTCROSSWORDS.COM

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