Research & Reading List: Unforget, Dream, Build

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Season 1, Episode 119: Unforget, Dream, Build 

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Description: The Trump years have seen a doubling-down on the immigrants-as-problem narrative in which migrants are accused of bringing gang violence, crime, and disease to the United States, and of “stealing” jobs. Reformers often play into another problem narrative, emphasizing the tragic circumstances that drive people to leave their home countries with little emphasis on individual experiences. In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed, advocating for immigration policy reform, and building community infrastructure in the face of ICE crackdowns and Covid-19. Featuring in-depth conversations with award-winning journalist Roberto Lovato, MacArthur genius award-winner and co-founder of United We Dream, Christina Jiménez, and a visit to the New Immigrant Community Empowerment organization in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Guests:

• Roberto Lovato, Author, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas

• Cristina Jiménez, Co-Founder and former Executive Director, United We Dream

• Diana Moreno, Program Director, New York - New Immigrant Community Empowerment, NICE

• Ines Arevalo, Member, NY NICE

• Juan Nolasco, Workforce Skills Instructor, NY NICE

• Luis Francois, Member and Volunteer, NY NICE

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Related Articles and Resources:

• Juan Crow in Georgia by Roberto Lovato, The Nation

• Pence, Who Backed Muslim Visa Ban, Gets Vaccine Invented by Muslim Immigrants by Juan Cole , Common Dreams

• Honduras: Caravan of the damned by Danica Jorden, Open Democracy

• ‘Maybe if I Had Papers, It Would Have Been Different’: Undocumented During a Pandemic, by Heather Gies and John Washington, The Nation

• A History Of Food And Chaos Bonds LA's Salvadoran Community by Roberto Lovato, LAist

• In Michigan, Undocumented Immigrants Form Learning Pod So They Won't Lose Their Jobs by Michelle Jokisch Polo, All Things Considered, NPR

• A Salvadoran-American Assembles the Fragments of a Violent Cultural History by Carolyn Forché, New York Times

• Instead of a Crisis, Can Biden Treat an Immigration Surge as an Opportunity? by Isabela Dias, Mother Jones

Featured ‘Music in the Middle’ of the Podcast:

“Black Moon” by Calibro 35 featuring MEI from their album Momentum, released on Record Kicks, Listen and Read More