People on the Move
People on the Move is a short animated film from the Gender, Justice, and Security Hub that synthesises field research in Afghanistan conducted between 2019 and 2024.
It outlines the Hub’s mandate to document conflict, discrimination and violence against marginalised communities, demonstrates how political instability and repeated crises create a self-perpetuating cycle of local conflict, population mobility and social-political ramifications in Afghanistan and its South Asian neighbours, and traces over four decades of war, intermittent stability and protracted displacement, including the intensified exodus following the collapse of the Afghan Republic in August 2021.
Through on-screen excerpts such as “Am I like you, or like them? I am what I am…” and “Let me live for my own sake…” the film illustrates the legal and existential precarity faced by Afghans under forced repatriation, deportation and shifting statutory policies, with the aim of informing policy analysis and advocacy for the rights of displaced and stateless populations.