Podcasts by Beyond Soundbites
Searching for the Personhood of Refugees
Further podcasts by Jacob Mau
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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21 - "Day by Day They Cut Down One More Lifeline" from 2020-10-22T23:19:20
In late 2019 and early 2020, the Trump administration’s actions were pushing migrant people in the US/Mexico borderlands into dangerous environments, while at the same time undercutting programs...
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20 - "What They Want is to Save Their Lives" from 2020-10-22T23:01:45
Covid-19 has all but reset our public memory. For many Americans, asylum-related topics like Remain in Mexico, zero tolerance, family separations, and safe third-country agreements have faded fr...
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19 - Prologue from 2020-10-22T20:30:25
Before diving into two episodes focused on Central America and asylum issues, Jacob pauses briefly to review his connection to refugee issues. He invites new listeners into his journey of learni...
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18 - The Reason I'm Here (Part 2) from 2020-10-07T17:22:09
This episode is part two of two in a sequence where we consider the significance of the Refugee Act of 1980 (signed in to law 40 years ago) through the eyes of one of its beneficiaries, 26-year-...
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17 - The Reason I'm Here (Part 1) from 2020-10-07T17:09:05
Trang Tran and her family were resettled under the auspices of the Refugee Act of 1980 by an organization called World Relief. Hailing from Vietnam, the family landed in the Chicago suburb of Wh...
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16 - Seventy Percent Alcohol, Thirty Percent Aloe (Displaced During COVID-19 Part 4) from 2020-05-15T01:41:05
This is the second half of our conversation with Bethany, a relief worker and missionary who supports migrant people and asylum-seekers in southern Spain. Last episode gave us the regional conte...
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15 - The Straits of Gibraltar (Displaced During COVID-19 Part 3) from 2020-05-15T01:25:13
In part three of our displaced during COVID-19 series, we learn background on the Mediterranean migration routes and meet an American relief worker and missionary named Bethany, who lives in sou...
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14 - Unraveled and Repurposed (Displaced During COVID-19 Part 2) from 2020-04-15T10:03:50
SJ Holsteen from IAFR Jonathan House in St. Paul Minnesota is a residential worker who lives with four women currently seeking asylum. She sh...
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13- Bruce Willis in Juárez (Displaced During COVID-19, Part 1) from 2020-04-01T03:10:30
It's difficult to maintain a spirit of concern for displaced people when our own communities and families are riddled with uncertainty and pain. Yet our own frailty can become a point of empathy...
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12 - Second Baptism and the God Who Sees (part 2) from 2019-10-17T21:07:52
As we prepare in coming months to address asylum issues in Central America and the U.S. Southern border, we pause for a bonus Q and A with author Karen Gonzalez. Her family migrated to the U.S. ...
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11 - Second Baptism and the God Who Sees (Part 1) from 2019-09-18T07:10:40
Through the story of her second baptism in South Los Angeles, author and immigrant advocate Karen Gonzalez challenges listeners about how our vision of refugees and immigrants compares to God’s ...
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10 - The Long View from 2019-02-10T10:31:14
Daniel Yang is a church planter and a Hmong-American born shortly after his parents arrived as refugees in 1979. We close this sequence with a message he delivered at the 2018 RHPNA Roundtable. ...
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9 - Form and Structure from 2019-02-10T10:21:42
We move from conflict regions and countries of asylum to the country that has traditionally accepted the largest number of refugees for formal resettlement: The United States. What are the domes...
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8 - Land of the Living from 2019-02-05T13:26:05
Fourteen months after Jacob's trip to Turkey, we get back in touch with Peter, Hannah, Romin, Oge, and Dariush. In the process, we get a glimpse of how two years of reduced U.S. refugee resettle...
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7 - Tears and Prayers from 2019-01-27T23:06:49
The next four episodes explore what has transpired in the landscape of displacement since President Trump announced a "travel ban" two years ago this week. To set the stage and get perspective, ...
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6 - The Ghostly Quiet from 2018-07-26T11:15:21
Back in Chicago in the Spring of 2018, Jacob discusses the outworkings of the United State’s drastically reduced resettlement program and what it means in the broader context of displacement. We...
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5 - Rebirth: Olive Branches in Lebanon from 2018-07-26T11:11:20
Mohammad’s home city of Aleppo was the center of Syria’s civil war for years. The violence left his family spread across Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon. In Lebanon, Mohammad had encounters that chan...
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4 - Miracles from 2018-07-26T11:08:56
Romin and Oge became refugees just a few weeks after they got married. They tell stories about finding love in God and in each other, exploring spiritual borders between faiths, and crossing phy...
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3 - Exit, Return, Repeat from 2018-07-26T09:49:54
From Nikes to Michael Jackson, Dariush has been looking West since childhood. His laugh is contagious; his family’s long search for belonging is full of grit, ingenuity and the skill to adapt an...
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2 - The Key to the Door from 2018-07-26T09:09:34
Peter’s mother moved their family to Tehran when he was in grade school. It was the start of a journey that hasn’t ended yet. Through his story, listeners are invited into the inner-world of dis...
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1 - Empty Shelves and Triage from 2018-07-09T10:23:33
In our introductory episode, Jacob sets a background for refugee resettlement in the U.S. by describing the environment at a Chicago resettlement agency in the fall of 2016.
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