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 this season of Immigration & Democracy with perha

S1. Ep7. Migration, Fashion, Power: The Once and Future Kings and Queens

Aug 19th, 2020 47m

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 commonly seen in Western society, and to celebrate

S1. Ep6. An All-American Wake Up Call: How Nativism Paved the Way for Trump’s Immigrant War

Aug 12th, 2020 38m 35s

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 appease certain voters with more securitized immig

S1. Ep5. Facing Deportation: A Game of Cat and Mouse

Aug 5th, 2020 1h

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 apprehended at the border, Dreamers studying at the natio

S1. Ep4. Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices in the Arts

Jul 29th, 2020 41m 30s

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 from the multicultural hub of Singapore whose

S1. Ep3. Hostile Terrain: Missing on the Migrant Trail

Jul 22nd, 2020 40m

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 to people who are, by the very nature of their

S1. Ep2. Youth Memoirs: Growing Up Undocumented

Jul 15th, 2020 44m 37s

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 growing up without papers, what it feels like to

S1. Ep1. Immigration Raids: An Unnatural Disaster

Jul 8th, 2020 33m 4s

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 Public Health. Among other topics, we discuss new

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