RCC Research Guides: Farm Workers &amp; LatinX Immigrants in the United States: Listen

Podcasts and Series

Let Me Count The Ways from This American Life Yes, youʼve heard about the family separations. Youʼve heard about the travel ban. But there are dozens of ways the Trump administration is cracking down on immigration across many agencies, sometimes in ways so small and technical it doesnʼt make headlines. This week, the quiet bureaucratic war that’s even targeting legal immigrants.
Juan’s Diaries: Undocumented, Then and Now from Radio Diaries Back in the 1990s, Juan crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, and settled with his family next to the Rio Grande river in Texas. We gave him a cassette recorder to document his life there for NPR. Almost two decades later, we gave Juan another recorder to report on his life as an adult. In many ways, Juan has achieved the American Dream - he has a house, a good job, and three American kids. But...he's still undocumented.
Resettled from VPM Do you ever truly feel resettled? What exactly does that mean, and how do you get there? For Mrs. Lailuma, a recent widow with children, arriving in Charlottesville, Virginia meant adapting not only to a new country, but also to a new family dynamic. The moment she felt like she'd be able to make it in America? Getting her driver's license. We also caught back up with the refugees featured earlier in the series, as we originally spoke with them as far back as 2018, to hear where they stand on the question of resettlement. Ahmed and Angela also reflect on the current state of immigration and refugee resettlement in the United States, driving home the importance of changing the perception of people arriving from other countries.
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Immigration has been a contentious topic in the United States for a few years now. However, the dialogue has, for some time, focused on legal vs. illegal immigration. In very recent years, the focus has shifted not only to criminalizing illegal immigration into the United States but also curtailing legal migration altogether. We see this in the current discussion around asylum seekers, especially those who are migrating from Central America trying to escape horrid conditions. Our next guest is Jorge Valencia. Jorge is the Mexico correspondent from KJZZ Phoenix. He joined the station in August 2016 as it's first senior field correspondent based in Mexico City. His reporting focuses on the business and economics between Arizona and Mexico. He has been the recipient of multiple journalism awards for his work in radio and in newspapers. Jorge has seen first-hand the hardships that asylum seekers on our Southern border have to face to migrate into the United States. Since my interview with Jorge, two more migrant kids, one of them only 2½-year-old, died after crossing the border, becoming five minors known to have died after being detained by the Border Patrol since December.
Essential Yet Unprotected: Farmworkers
Teresa Romero Discusses Justice for Farmworkers
In the Thick: America's Farmworkers
Ventura County Live Monthly Podcast Connecting Farmworkers to their Communities in Mexico
NPR Beyond the Furrows
Stephen Colbert: Migrant Worker pt 1
Stephen Colbert: Migrant Worker pt. 2
Stephen Colbert Testifies before Congress

Webinars

Telling Immigrant Stories (does not have full CC) Emily Francis, Jake Halpern and Michael Sheridan discuss how to tell first person and third person stories of immigration in an educational setting.
Immigration Data and Policy Update - Denzil Mohammed, The ILC Public Education Institute During the 2020 Immigrant Student Success educators' workshop. Denzil Mohammed, Director of The Immigrant Learning Center's Public Education Institute, reviews recent data and policy information about the immigrants and immigration in the United States Slides available at this link: https://www.ilctr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Denzil_Immigration-Data-and-Policy-Update.pdf
Supporting Immigrant Students - Schools and Teachers as Support Network Discussion: Cynthia Carvajal, Jalene Tamerat, Candace Black, Amy Melik and Julie Bradley discuss strategies for supporting immigrant students in the classroom.

Listen and Learn - Immigrant Experience Stories from The Moth Radio Hour, Storycorps and others

Liberty Card The Moth archives - Marvin Gelfand tells the story of how an immigrant child finds independence in the world of books.
English Lessons The Moth Radio Hour - Ivan Kuraev tells how an eight-year-old immigrant learns English to win a girl’s heart.
A Kind of Wisdom The Moth Radio Hour - Ellie Lee, a daughter, tells the story of her Chinese immigrant father and the empire he built from nothing.
Milagro Storycorps archives - Talking with my suegra about her migration experience and why she still feels unwelcome in the US.
Interview with Attorney Monica Salazar Storycorps archives - The life of a Latina immigration attorney.
Interview con Arturo" Storycorps archive - A conversation about how he entered the country and how his life has been since.
Nestor Gomez
There's Vultures Circling All the Time
Gilbert Zermeno
Vito de la Cruz