EDUCATIONAL PODCASTS
To enhance your knowledge on the correlation between immigration and criminality
These are a series of podcast that will allow for a deeper understanding about nativist immigration laws throughout history, hear more about personal experiences in regards to immigration, and most importantly, ways in which you can start deconstructing subconscious prejudice against Undocumented people in the United States.
JUSTICE IN AMERICA EPISODE 8
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Josie and Clint talk with Alida Garcia, an attorney and advocate at FWD.us, about where immigration and criminal law increasingly overlap.
EPISODE FIVE: THE WALL
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Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos talk with Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff and DW Gibson, author of the recently published 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall. How much of Trump’s border wall has been built? Will it stop undocumented migration? What do people living in the border region think about it?
EPISODE #5: LAS TRAINAS DE NC
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Now we enter the story! Today’s episode is about las trailas. Axel lived in one for a while growing up, and we know many of y’all did too. The trailas we’re talking about in today’s episode were around the corner from middle-class white housing developments near Charlotte in the early 2000s. This is when things started to go south (no pun intended). Not all the white people liked having us in their ‘hood, a strong anti-immigrant movement came here from California, undocumented immigrants lost their driver’s licenses… In today’s episode we meet Angelica, a Mexican woman trying her best to raise her family amid this shit - just like our parents did. We try to take on the fights that our parents can’t, but it’s not always easy. You too? - This podcast is produced by Ricky Hurtado, Erik Valera, and Julie Weise, with generous sponsorship from the Whiting Foundation, the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, and Latinx Ed. Edited by Dorian Gomez.
YOUTH MEMOIRS: GROWING UP UNDOCUMENTED (45 MIN)
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Today we talk to Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, and Marcelo Hernández Castillo, author of Children of the Land. Among other topics, we discuss what it is like growing up without papers, what it feels like to publish memoirs at a young age, and the intersection of memory, writing and taking care of ourselves.
This podcast was a project made during the Winter Quarter of 2020 where Amci, Damalish (the creators of this website), and their classmate talked about a multitude of issues concerning migration.
"Our focus on the podcast centered on a multitude of issues concerning migration and its entirety. Imperative aspects about immigration within our podcast showcased policies such as Proposition 187, and the Arizona Senate Bill 1070 which have all shaped the ways in which immigration is handled within the United States. We also unpacked the ways in which laws such as these can create negative connotations surrounding immigration as a whole. The “Latino Threat” is one of the many stereotypes that have stemmed from the negative rhetorics being presented within the Trump administration. Furthermore, we also discussed assimilation and the overall ways false perceptions of migrants, such as them not being able to “learn the language quickly” which is debunked immediately; it is imperative to note that within our podcast we often debunk many of the stereotypes that are put against migrants. We also speak about the overall criminalization of migrants and the harsh realities they often face within the legal system. Lastly, we discuss the many reasons people even migrate to begin with and also address what we can do as a community to alleviate and help people that are trying to come to the United States."