Podcasts by Immigration and Democracy
In this series, Jennifer Allsopp and Xiren Wang bring you fresh knowledge and insight from the team at the Immigration Initiative at Harvard, led by our Director, Professor Roberto G. Gonzales, and featuring voices from the field. Join us as we get to know our neighbors through their stories.
This podcast is hosted by Dr Jennifer Allsopp and produced by Xiren Wang and Dr Jennifer Allsopp.
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S1. Ep8. The Immigrant Vote: What, How Many, and Why it Matters from 2020-08-26T12:27:45
Not only is immigration a main stake in the forthcoming U.S. election, it is predicted that this year will see unprecedented numbers of immigrant voters. So, what does that look like? We wrap up th...
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S1. Ep7. Migration, Fashion, Power: The Once and Future Kings and Queens from 2020-08-19T20:06:39
Can fashion help us make a better world for our children? Today, we talk to Walé Oyéjidé. With clothes and prose, his work aims to reframe the lens through which migrants and asylum seekers are com...
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S1. Ep6. An All-American Wake Up Call: How Nativism Paved the Way for Trump’s Immigrant War from 2020-08-12T14:51:24
Is Trumpism really a bolt from the blue, or is his hardline approach to immigration a continuation of majority-ethnic nationalism that goes back to settler colonialism? And, in their efforts to app...
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S1. Ep5. Facing Deportation: A Game of Cat and Mouse from 2020-08-05T15:08:18
Deportation is when a country takes measures to remove a foreign national from its territory. It's something faced by criminal fugitives, but also by refugees fleeing persecution who are apprehende...
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S1. Ep4. Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices in the Arts from 2020-07-29T11:00:26
The words immigrant activism and opera are seldom used together, but White Snake Projects is pioneering this cause. We talk to Cerise Lim Jacobs, Pulitzer Prize winning opera creator and librettist...
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S1. Ep3. Hostile Terrain: Missing on the Migrant Trail from 2020-07-22T11:00:29
We know that more than 3,200 people have gone missing since the 1990's to the present day in the Sonora Desert, Arizona alone – but what does that mean? And how do you document atrocities happening...
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S1. Ep2. Youth Memoirs: Growing Up Undocumented from 2020-07-15T11:00:36
Today we talk to Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, and Marcelo Hernández Castillo, author of Children of the Land. Among other topics, we discuss what it is like gr...
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S1. Ep1. Immigration Raids: An Unnatural Disaster from 2020-07-08T13:00:11
Today, we discuss immigration raids. We're joined by Dr William D. Lopez, from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Dr Nicole L. Novak, from the University of Iowa College of Pub...
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