Category: “A Better Life?”

“A Better Life?” explores how America’s failed response to COVID-19 has reshaped immigrants’ lives and their relationship to the United States. Each episode tells a different immigrant story and examines how the crisis has challenged or changed that person’s ideas of what it means to be American. The show also includes conversations with immigrant elders — grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles — to hear how they are coping during this time, and what they have learned over the years that can help the rest of us survive today’s challenges.
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Permanent Resident, Expiration: Never

Through The Fake Green Cards Project, Philadelphia-based artists Xuan Liu and Youkun Zhou invite us to imagine a world where getting “papers” is not the nerve-wracking process it has become for many immigrants in the U.S. Producer Danya AbdelHameid reports on how their whimsical hand-drawn cards explore the meaning of the green card, spark conversations about the challenges of navigating the immigration system, and raise questions about what it means to belong in America.

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How to Wash Your Brain — “A Better Life?” Podcast

Writer and producer Boen Wang and his Chinese-born mom disagree on almost every political issue. Each suspects that the other has been “brainwashed”, because how else could they have such extreme views? In this personal piece, Boen unpacks the epistemology and history of the term brainwashing, and goes on an intimate exploration of his mom’s childhood and experiences in the U.S. to figure out what has actually shaped her political beliefs—and his own.

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Does Anyone Even Want Latinos to Vote? — “A Better Life?” Podcast

Both parties maintain that Latino voters are important to them. But across the country many Latinos say they feel alienated from the political process.

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What We Gained and What We Lost in Covid

Four stories in English and Spanish from bilingual journalists

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Worthy of Telling Our Own Story

A live conversation with three Feet in 2 Worlds journalists about their work serving multiple audiences in both Spanish and English.

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Whose Chinatown? “A Better Life?” Podcast

Covid highlights long-standing divisions in an iconic L.A. neighborhood

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Getting it Right: “A Better Life?” Podcast

Confronting Covid Misinformation in Immigrant Communities

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On the Sidelines: “A Better Life?” Podcast

How did Covid affect immigrant workers in major league sports?

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Tested: “A Better Life?” Podcast

Latino Students in North Carolina Return to the Classroom

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I Want to Stay Here, Just Not Forever: “A Better Life?” Podcast

Covid’s impact on an international student in Wyoming