5 Great Moments from #DreamCity Fi2W’s First Film Series
Highlights of our recent film series and a conversation with participating filmmakers.
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Fi2W Film Series Celebrates NYC Immigrant Heritage Week
Join us at The New School on April 21 – 23 for a film series exploring immigrant experiences in film.
Podcast: Latino Perspectives on the 2012 New Hampshire Primary
Reporters Pilar Marrero and Valeria Fernandez are on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. They’ve been talking to voters about the economy and immigration.
Documentary on Arizona Immigration Debate Shines Light on Two Iconic Figures
Fi2W’s Valeria Fernandez and filmmaker Dan De Vivo are completing work on “Two Americans,” a film that focuses on Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and a nine year old girl whose immigrant parents were arrested by his deputies.
Immigrant Women Marching in Place
FI2W’s Valeria Fernandez acted as moderator for the Third Annual Bill Green Forum on low-income working women and economic inequality.
Reporter's Notebook: Behind the Headlines About Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Immigration Sweeps
This week the public radio program Making Contact features a story by Feet in Two Worlds reporter Valeria Fernández about the impact of an immigration raid on a family in Phoenix, Arizona. Valeria wrote the following reporter’s notebook about her…
Some Immigrants Going Back to Their Home Countries To Get Affordable Health Care
PHOENIX, Arizona — A month ago, Patricia Presa learned that she has uterine cancer. She’s decided to go back to her native Mexico to seek treatment there, because she is an undocumented immigrant and can’t afford to pay for health…
Arizona Sheriff Defiant as Debate Over Local Immigration Enforcement Program Intensifies
PHOENIX, Arizona — A proposed agreement, scheduled to be voted on today by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, may offer a glimpse of the federal government’s plans to modify a widely criticized program that authorizes local police to enforce…
Reporter’s Notebook: Finding Common Ground on Immigration in Arizona’s Dairy Farms
Phoenix-based FI2W reporter Valeria Fernández produced a radio piece for NPR’s Latino USA on immigrants who work in the dairy industry and the farmers who hire them. Here, Valeria narrates how she produced the piece, which airs this weekend on…
“My Life in an Arizona Dairy”: Journal of a Migrant Worker’s Daughter
This diary was written by the 12-year-old daughter of a Mexican immigrant dairy worker. Her name has been changed to protect her identity. Click here to go to the main story to read more about her family and to listen…