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WINGS #20-18 Asylum Seekers
Guatemalan women fleeing to the USA
Uploaded: 1 Sep, 2018
Recording Date: 31 Aug, 2018
Recording Location: Guatemala, Texas, California, and Denman Island BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
Copyright: Nonprofit use only. For more permissions, email wings@wings.org
Program Title: WINGS #20-18 Asylum Seekers
Description: The inclusion of life-threatening domestic and gang violence as reasons for seeking asylum abroad is being weakened and effectively deleted by the current US Attorney General. This documentary covers women who have fled Guatemala to try to access asylum in the USA. One succeeds, one does not. Several are in the US with their children, and hoping.
Host(s): Maria Martin, Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Albertina Gutierrez, US Asylum Seeker, Mother of Two, from Guatemala; Denise Gilman, San Antonio-based Immigration Attorney; Alessandra, recently arrived from Guatemala to the US; Sister Consuelo, Backpack Volunteer with RAICES in San Antonio, Texas; Lynn Stephen, Oregon-based anthropologist and president-elect of the Latin American Studies Association; Lucia, asylum seeker from Guatemala who was rejected by the US
Credits: This program is adapted with permission from the Making Contact program The Seekers, Part 1. The producer was Maria Martin. Adaptation for WINGS by Frieda Werden. Additional credits for Making Contact team: Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada; Executive Director: Lisa Rudman.
Comments: For more information about Making Contact, visit radioproject.org
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Topic:
News
Type:
Weekly Program
Politics > Feminism Politics > Activism Society and Culture > Childhood Regional > United States Politics > Elections Politics > Political Parties Society and Culture > Racism Politics > First Nations Society and Culture > Women Regional > Latin America |
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