Episode 11: "What have immigrants ever done for us?"

18/02/2025 7 min Temporada 1 Episodio 11

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How would Isabel Allende, with her mixed identities and life experience, answer the question "Where are you from?"?How much of our nationality fits into our identity? Are our identities defined by more than the lottery of where we are born?In a media landscape which often paints immigration as a problem, what if we changed the narrative around immigration and told a different story? Spoke of how mixed we already all are and how much immigration has contributed to enrich rather than impoverish the world?➡️ A thought-provoking episode that will spark a reflection on identity, as well as shine the spotlight on the positivity of immigration.--Presented and produced by Jonathan Ketchell.Sources: What do Britons really think about the riots? More in Common, 9 August 2024. Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models. Plos One, 18 October, 2022. 2015: The year of Europe's refugee crisis. UNHCR, 8 December, 2015. NFAP Policy Brief: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and U.S. Billion-Dollar Companies. NFAP, July, 2022. Sound clip taken from video 'UK protests: Police pelted with fireworks during riots, bodycam footage shows'. Global News, 9 August 2024. Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home. PBS News Hour, 30 October, 2015.