A Transcontinental Immigrant Narrative
Sofija Stefanovic discusses her memoir, Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir, which charts her journey as a child coming of age in a country torn apart by war and her family’s struggle to acclimate to a new...
View ArticleAbdi Nor Iftin's Journey from Somalia to Maine
Abdi Nor Iftin discusses his memoir Call Me American: A Memoir. Originally from Somalia, Iftin was a fan of U.S. culture and became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American. When the radical Islamist...
View ArticleDan Pfeiffer's Obama Years, Seymour Stein: The Music Man, Surviving Somalia's...
Dan Pfeiffer talks about how Obama succeeded despite Twitter trolls, Fox News, and the Republican Party’s attempts to stymie his efforts. Seymour Stein discusses his prolific career as a...
View ArticleThe Migrant Detention Business is More Profitable Than You Think
Up first, we take a look at the money behind private corrections and detention operators via a comprehensive report from the Corrections Accountability Project. Then, we talk to a self-described...
View ArticleThe Political Price of Betting on Immigration
This week on The Takeaway Friday with Amy Walter, a big look at immigration from history and political strategies to consequences and the current state of immigration and the electorate. After...
View ArticleSotomayor Invokes WWII Era Korematsu Case to Repudiate Travel Ban
In her dissent on the travel ban ruling, Justice Sotomayor invoked Korematsu v. United States, a 1944 Supreme Court decision that found it legal to hold Japanese Americans in internment camps during...
View ArticleNadler Calls for Jailing Trump Officials if They Don’t Reunite Migrant Families
The Trump administration is just days away from the July 26 deadline to reunite all migrant children separated from their parents at the border.But, following a briefing with federal officials last...
View ArticleReturn To Kuku Island
In the 1970s, thousands of Vietnamese refugees were left on the remote Anambas Islands in Indonesia. They were stranded without food, water, and shelter, forced to survive off the land. Now, almost 40...
View ArticleAn Intimate Portrait of Forbidden Love
Crystal Hana Kim discusses If You Leave Me: A Novel. An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the book focuses on two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the choices they’re...
View ArticleThe 3M Reckoning, Fly Girls that Made History, Love in Wartime
Sharon Lerner discusses what 3M knew and kept secret about PFAS chemicals since the 1970s. Keith O’Brien talks about female pilots that broke glass ceilings and defied the odds. Crystal Hana Kim talks...
View ArticleCallan Wink Reads "A Refugee Crisis"
Callan Wink reads his short story from the August 20, 2018, issue of the magazine. Wink's début story collection, "Dog Run Moon," was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize....
View ArticleVenezuelan Refugees Struggle Amid Calls of "Brazil First"
As Venezuelans pour out of their troubled country, many of them go to the Brazilian state Roraima. And this past weekend, tensions boiled over in the border town Pacaraima when a Brazilian shopkeeper...
View ArticleYour Papers, Please
As thousands of people approach the US border from Central America seeking refuge, they encounter a tangle of borders and cages, with the possibility of getting stuck behind either at every step of the...
View ArticleDirector of Refugee Organization Hated by Pittsburgh Shooter Speaks Out
The man suspected of killing 11 people in Pittsburgh Saturday was fixated on a New York City organization that was founded in 1881. Now known as HIAS, it was originally founded as the Hebrew Immigrant...
View ArticleHow Quickly We Forget
The death of George H.W. Bush brought us a week’s worth of ceremony, eulogy and wall-to-wall coverage. This week, a look at the choices journalists made when they set out to memorialize the president....
View ArticleFarhad
A power comes over you that feels like death.Farhad is an IT apprentice for Germany's Fraktion DIE LINKE, and lives in Berlin.Thanks to Oliver Lazarus, who co-produced this episode.Join the 10 Things...
View ArticleWhen They Took My Son (rebroadcast)
We examine the stories of two families separated in 2018 at the U.S.-Mexico border and how what happened to them matches up with what the government said was supposed to happen.Don’t miss out on the...
View ArticleVenezuelans Stream into an Uncertain Future in Colombia
Thousands of Venezuelans streamed into neighboring Colombia when Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the border to be opened on Saturday after four months of closure. With inflation at nearly...
View ArticleRefugees, in Pursuit of Art
After his father was killed in the war, Mirza Ramic fled Bosnia with his mother. The two arrived in the United States in 1996. His first memory as a 13-year-old was watching the Jerry Springer show at...
View ArticleWeek Ahead: June 17, 2019
In this week's look ahead: Albany's legislative session comes to a close Wednesday. A lot of legislation has passed in recent days (rent regulations and the end of religious exemptions to vaccinations...
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