Western New England is home to immigrants and refugees from around the globe, and their presence revitalizes the region and redefines its culture. Their journeys have involved fear, uprootedness, and isolation as well as perseverance, creativity, and hope. New England Public Radio (NEPR), in collaboration with Copeland Colloquium at Amherst College produced Words in Transit, an oral history project collected the personal stories of nearly thirty people who have made this area their new home.
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Episode 11 - Third Culture Kids
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Third Culture Kid features stories of acclimation and loss from a Palestinian woman and an Irish woman._________________Western New England is home to immigrants and refugees from around the globe, and their presence revitalizes the region and redefines its culture. Their journeys have involved fear, uprootedness, and isolation as well as persevera…
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Episide 10 - Undocumented II
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The second of two podcasts on immigrants that came to the U.S. without documentation. This episode, features the story of an immigrant from Colombia that came here to improve his family’s financial situation and the story of a young man from the Dominican Republic that realized as a teenager that his family was undocumented.__Western New England is…
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Episode 9 - Family Reunion
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Family Reunion features stories of two young people who came to the United States to re-unite with their families.Western New England is home to immigrants and refugees from around the globe, and their presence revitalizes the region and redefines its culture. Their journeys have involved fear, uprootedness, and isolation as well as perseverance, c…
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Episode 8 - Starting Over
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The story of two families, one from Syria and one from Sri Lanka that came to the United States to create new and better lives.Kirjoittanut NEPR-New England Public Radio
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Episode 7 - Political Refugees
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This episode features the stories of two women who brought their families to the United States as political refugees, one from Romania and one from Sudan.Kirjoittanut NEPR-New England Public Radio
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We hear an essay on DACA from an undocumented immigrant profiled in episode 2.Kirjoittanut NEPR-New England Public Radio
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Survival includes two stories from refugees from Burundi and the Congo that escaped violence in their homeland.Kirjoittanut NEPR-New England Public Radio
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Episode 5 - Refugee Children
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Vira Douangmany Cage and Sovann-Malis Loeung came to the United States as children from south-east Asia-Vira from Laos and Sovann-Malis from Cambodia. Their traumatic journeys and early experiences in a new land continue to impact their lives today.Kirjoittanut NEPR-New England Public Radio
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Episode 4 - Leaving Iraq
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The story of two Iraqi refugees who were granted political asylum to come to the United States.Kirjoittanut NEPR-New England Public Radio
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For many immigrants education is important to their transition and future. In episode 3, Heap Sin, from Cambodia, and Woodlyn Joachim, from Haiti, talk about how teachers and education impacted their livesKirjoittanut NEPR-New England Public Radio
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