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Location: New York, New York
http://www.fi2w.org/

Journalism training organization dedicated to publishing stories by and about immigrants.

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A Better Life?” explores how America’s failed response to COVID-19 has reshaped immigrants’ lives and their relationship to the United States. Each episode tells a different immigrant story and examines how the crisis has challenged or changed that person’s ideas of what it means to be American.

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Updated: Oct 21, 2020

Home, Interrupted

4 Pieces

Feet in 2 Worlds presents Home, Interrupted, a podcast series exploring how the climate crisis affects immigrants across the U.S., and how immigrant communities are finding new ways to deal with a warming planet.

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Updated: Apr 19, 2024

Maya Farms…in Nebraska?

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: Home, Interrupted

Caption: Luis Marcos standing in front of the 310 acres in northeast Nebraska that the Maya community hopes will be theirs by the end of the year., Credit: Anja Nilsson

In America’s agricultural heartland, a small group of immigrant farmers look to ancient methods to help modern farming respond to the climate crisi...

Who Sends Help When Hurricanes Strike?

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: Home, Interrupted

Caption: Pamela Contreras Franco and her daughter Aitana pose for a photo after Hurricane Otis. In order to receive federal aid, they had to prove that they had been affected by the hurricane., Credit: Photo courtesy of Pamela Contreras Franco.

When Hurricane Otis devastated the resort city of Acapulco in October 2023, Mexican authorities struggled to respond to the disaster. Producer Gret...

Rising Floods for Basement Apartment Dwellers

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: Home, Interrupted

Caption: Amit Shivprasad outside his home in Hollis, Queens. Shivprasad advocates for basement reform, and his community is prone to flooding. Despite previous floods, the area is still undesignated as a flood zone., Credit: Diana Cervantes

Over 100,000 people live in New York City basement apartments; most are immigrants. It’s an open secret that, while basement apartments offer cheap...

Harvest of Shame: Deadly Heat Edition

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: Home, Interrupted

Caption: Maria Pineda, a former farmworker, in a community huerta in Apopka, Florida., Credit: Allison Salerno

Producer Allison Salerno reports on community organizations and scientists who are working with farmworkers in Florida to safeguard themselves from...

Call Your Elders: We’re Going to Be Okay

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life

Rosalind calls her Tita Margaret, a Filipina immigrant who lived through 9/11 in New York City.

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Black Immigrants in the Whitest State

From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life

Two young Black African immigrants in Maine talk about their state, which has the widest racial disparity in the country when it comes to coronavir...

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