Fri, 24 April 2020
While many of us are able to shelter in place through the pandemic, immigrants are disproportionately on the front lines, working essential jobs such as nurses, EMTs, home health aides and doctors. For the many foreign born health workers, who have legal documentation, their ability to send remittances to families in their home countries has been compromised by the pandemic. On this week’s episode, we hear from: Rosalie Villanueva, nurse in Galveston, Texas Jason DeParle, New York Times Global Poverty Reporter and Author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century Host: Ray Suarez Producer: Teresa Cotsirilos Senior producer: Jarrod Sport Executive producer: Joanne Elgart Jennings If you appreciate this program and want to support the work we do, please sign up for a World Affairs membership. Your donation enables us to serve the public and connect high school students to critical global issues. |