provincial migration

His films chronicle the struggles of working-class individuals displaced by economic forces, particularly in 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Kes,' capturing rural-to-urban migration's human cost.

Through films like 'Still Walking' and 'Shoplifters,' he explores how provincial Japanese communities are transformed by migration and economic change, examining family bonds across distances.

Her films 'The Rider' and 'Nomadland' intimately document internal migration and displacement in America, portraying dignity amid economic precarity and rootlessness.