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The Right Kind of Immigrant: The Narrative of Deserving and Undeserving Immigrants
Aarti Shahani founded Families for Freedom—a Brooklyn-based immigrant rights organization—after her father faced deportation. Shahani’s father was a legal permanent resident from India who was accused of not properly reporting foreign sales to the IRS from his small, family-run, electronics store. He had not lived in his home country since the 1950s, but the U.S. […]
An American Dream: “I Know This Mountain”
In our premiere episode of “An American Dream,” an undocumented woman from Guatemala recalls a dream that she feels foreshadowed her life in the U.S. Our new series, “An American Dream,” dives into the dreams of immigrants and how the experiences of their waking lives affect their sleeping ones. Through the shared human experience of […]
Relentless | Carlos
Meet Carlos, a determined young man who juggles school and two jobs to provide for his family in the U.S. and in El Salvador. In our new series, “Relentless,” we capture the daily lives of some of the country’s hardest-working individuals—people who are vital to society’s daily functions but are often times taken for granted. […]
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Ada Chen’s sculptural jewelry aims to create social commentary about her own experiences with the misrepresentation of Chinese culture in America.
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