"Culture" : from VPMHow do you preserve your culture when integration is a primary focus of resettlement?
"In Quarantine with Joe Wong" from SubtitleJoe Wong is a brilliant bilingual comedian. In the US, he does standup. In his native China he hosts a popular TV game show. Recently his comedy has become more political: he is confronting US racial tensions head-on. In quarantine, Joe is writing a book, cooking for his son, and decrying virus-related anti-Asian hate crimes.
"Let Me Count The Ways" from This American LifeYes, youʼve heard about the family separations. Youʼve heard about the travel ban. But there are dozens of ways the Trump administration is cracking down on immigration across many agencies, sometimes in ways so small and technical it doesnʼt make headlines. This week, the quiet bureaucratic war that’s even targeting legal immigrants.
“Juan’s Diaries: Undocumented, Then and Now” from Radio DiariesBack in the 1990s, Juan crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, and settled with his family next to the Rio Grande river in Texas. We gave him a cassette recorder to document his life there for NPR. Almost two decades later, we gave Juan another recorder to report on his life as an adult. In many ways, Juan has achieved the American Dream - he has a house, a good job, and three American kids. But...he's still undocumented.
"Resettled" from VPMDo you ever truly feel resettled? What exactly does that mean, and how do you get there? For Mrs. Lailuma, a recent widow with children, arriving in Charlottesville, Virginia meant adapting not only to a new country, but also to a new family dynamic. The moment she felt like she'd be able to make it in America? Getting her driver's license.
We also caught back up with the refugees featured earlier in the series, as we originally spoke with them as far back as 2018, to hear where they stand on the question of resettlement. Ahmed and Angela also reflect on the current state of immigration and refugee resettlement in the United States, driving home the importance of changing the perception of people arriving from other countries.
Immigration : This American LifeWe live in a big enough country that there are lots of laws too obscure for most of us to have heard of...but which actually affect tens of thousands of lives in huge ways. This show deals with one of them: A 1996 immigration law that the Immigration Service itself says is unfair. Most of the law's original sponsors in Congress now say they went too far, and that they were too harsh when they passed the law. And yet most of the law's key provisions still stand unchanged.
"X-Rated Immigrant Story" from OtherhoodJimmy O. Yang wrote a book about all the embarrassing things he did while trying to find his identity — including drug use and strip club visits. His parents read it. Let's just say, there was fallout.
“Maybe We Need To Tell Fuller Stories” from ImmigrantlyParnaz Foroutan has lived through some of history’s most defining moments. Her early childhood took place in the heels of the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979. But at the age of six, this course of life was altered when her family uprooted them to a suburb of Los Angeles. Nineteen years later, after a life-altering moment, she returned to Iran to rebuild her relationship with the culture and identity that was lost.
“If I Bend That Far, I'll Break” from BeginnerMisha finds another immigrant group that's found some sense of belonging in America. Produced by Misha Euceph, with help from Sammy Miller. Our story editor is Lyra Smith. Special thanks to Nate, Emily and Julie Miller; Micah Wexler; and my parents, Sajeela and Euceph.
Webinars
"Telling Immigrant Stories"Emily Francis, Jake Halpern and Michael Sheridan discuss how to tell first person and third person stories of immigration in an educational setting.
“Immigration Data and Policy Update” - Denzil Mohammed, The ILC Public Education InstituteDuring the 2020 Immigrant Student Success educators' workshop. Denzil Mohammed, Director of The Immigrant Learning Center's Public Education Institute, reviews recent data and policy information about the immigrants and immigration in the United States
Slides available at this link:
https://www.ilctr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Denzil_Immigration-Data-and-Policy-Update.pdf
"Jenny Rask Interview with Father Gene Barth Rask"Storycorps archives - Jenny Rask interviews her father Gene Rask in their first chat. How and when his grandparents arrived in the US and a look into where they came from in Lebanon around 1898.
"Marie Reynolds and Pierre-Richard Eustache"Storycorps archives - Marie Reynolds (66) talks with her son, Pierre-Richard Eustache (36), about her experience growing up as immigrant from Haiti.
Interview con ArturoStorycorps archive - A conversation about how he entered the country and how his life has been since.
