Migration is one lens. The deeper subject is identity, recognition and the hidden social architectures that shape how we become ourselves.

Blending sociology, philosophy and decolonial thought with lived experience, this episode explores what happens when your reality becomes more complex than the stories available to explain it. Why do some people feel immediately recognisable while others spend years translating themselves? What happens when you are seen before you are understood?

At the centre of the series is The Identity Gap™: the space between lived experience and social recognition. The place where what feels deeply personal is often shaped by histories, stories and systems we were never taught to see.

This is the beginning of a conversation about identity, belonging and recognition and the language we need to understand them.

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