To the Migrant Child & the migrant Parent.: A life lived with two Home countries.

By Joan Nsimbi

This book is a culmination of one child's expressive writing collected over 10 years. It describes the emotions, feelings, challenges and dynamics of leaving one's birth country for a new land unknown. Covering the events that unfolded from my father's decision to emigrate from Uganda to the United Kingdom. The struggles our family went through to raise the funds for father's journey, the aftermath of his move, the silent soldiering on and staying strong for mum and him, his settlement into the UK, how he parented us over the phone until we were able join him in the UK.

It also explores the culture shocks I felt, navigating the new systems, education, being parented in the UK exploring themes of parent-child relationships which can be strained by the move. Because our parents were raised in a specific way, with a set of values, principles and the nonnegotiable acceptable social norms that they expect us to conform to regardless of where we are.

I would also like to highlight the poems within Chapter 9: My relationship with my father. I mostly wrote these poems retrospectively after my father's demise in 2018. Often times we are harsh to our parents as children because they are loving us differently to how we want to be loved, but that doesn't make their Love any less. Similarly, our parents tend to be harsh to us because they are drawing inspiration from how they were raised. But from reading this book and Chapter 9 specifically, I hope we are all just a little gentler and kinder towards each other, both Parents and Children.

With Love,
Joan

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5MV1SSD
• ISBN13: 9798280343443
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"