Between Passports

Aiko left Japan for Brazil because she fell in love. Tokyo was organized, predictable and quiet. Rio was almost everything she had been raised not to expect: loud, spontaneous and constantly inviting itself into her...

Every morning, Kartik wakes up to more than 200 WhatsApp messages from fourteen different group chats. He knows what's happening in everyone's life. He just doesn't have anyone to have dinner with. A story about...

The first thing she paid every month wasn't her rent. It was home. Forty percent of her paycheck crossed the Pacific to the Philippines before Canada took its share. Before the landlord. Before life. She worked as a...

Her grandmother died in Peru. María was standing in a small apartment kitchen in Germany, still wearing the clothes she'd worn to work. The funeral was starting thousands of kilometers away. She wasn't late. She was...

A seven-year-old boy comes home from school and asks his mother: "Why do the other kids say I talk funny?" She freezes. Sofía is from Guatemala. She moved to Mexico with her son. She thought she understood what it meant...

This week is different. Urmi Hossain asked us to use her real name. She was born in Italy. Her family is Bengali. She now lives in Canada. For years, she lived a dual life. Not because anyone asked her to. Because it...

Emeka left Lagos for London at 22. Twelve years later, he finally went home. He expected to feel like himself again. Instead, he found that home had moved while he was away—not just the city, but his place in it. His...

Lucas from São Paulo moved to Munich for work. When he got sick, he did what he'd always done: he called his manager and told him everything. The fever. When it started. The exact feeling. The paracetamol at 2am. The...

Mei-Lin walked into her first job at 24 years old. Her manager mispronounced her name twice, then asked: "Do you have something easier?" She invented Amy on the spot. She used it for three years. This is a story about...

Ana is a nurse in Singapore. For six years, she's handed hospital forms to hundreds of patients. They fill in the emergency contact line without thinking—husband, mother, sister. One Tuesday, she became the patient. And...

When Layla decided to marry Marco, she didn't just marry him. She married two families—one Iranian, one Italian. Both loud. Both loving. Both absolutely certain they knew the right way to do a wedding. The Tahdig was...

“There was a gap. I stepped into a gap.” What happens when something completely normal in one culture… is a silent crime in another? This episode follows Youssef, a Moroccan project manager living in London, who makes a...

Arjun is an engineer from India living in Seattle. For six months, he spent every night on a commuter train practicing a new accent—working on his R's, flattening his sentence rhythms, erasing the sound of where he came...

Gabby arrived in Toronto knowing nobody. When her roommate invited her to a birthday party, she thought she'd finally found her moment to belong. So she stayed. While everyone else left, one by one, she stayed—honoring...

Have you ever moved countries and realized your life just became a beautiful, hilarious disaster?" Welcome to the trailer for Between Passports , a new podcast dedicated to the raw, unfiltered, and deeply human...