First Generation: Yama's Take on Immigration - a podcast by Michael Fil

Immigration is a multigenerational story. While Yama is not an immigrant herself, she is the daughter of immigrants from Kenya and The Gambia who met in New York.

It’s important to hear from the children of immigrants for several reasons.

A report from the OECD showed that over 25% of children in the US under the age of 18 have at least one immigrant parent. In Canada, the number is 37.5%.

The same report showed that two-thirds of kids in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague schools come from immigrant homes.

The children of immigrants will undoubtedly change the ways that our society functions. Our workforce, cuisines, laws - even social contracts; everything will change over time, in ways that I think will be for the greater benefit of all people who call our multi-cultural countries home.

I’ll let you hear directly from Yama on the ways that being a child of immigrants impacted her life, her movement around the country and the world, if she is proud to call herself American, and how she feels about immigration in the US today.

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