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Playlist: Finding Home: Youth Voices on Immigration

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From leaving home, to translating language and culture, to encountering differences even in their own families, teen immigrants question what fitting in really means.

Below are picks chosen by the editorial staff at PRX and Generation PRX. You can find other Youth-Produced programming options on Generation PRX and using our advanced search.

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A Good Hmong Daughter

From MPR News Stations | Part of the MPR News' Youth Series series | 00:06:10

What's propelling young, Hmong women to break with tradition and pursue their college dreams.

Leaving the Mountains

From Appalachian Media Institute | 00:01:35

Growing up in rural Appalachia Machlyn Blair didn't think he would have much in common with teenagers from other places. But the current immigration debate has made him realize just how central the experience of economic migration has been for him and his family. In this essay Machlyn shares his personal experiences and family history with economic migration, and talks about what making a choice to leave home really means to him.

Dominican Republic

From Radio Rookies | 00:08:09

Angely Tavares considers her parents choice to immigrate to New York city for a better life from her beloved Domincan Republic.

Banking Translated

From Youth Radio | 00:03:34

Youth Radio’s Mayra Jimenez reports on the role of young people translating financial transactions for their immigrant parents.

Jincho

From WAMU | 00:03:22

When Josue arrived in the US he was surprised to find that some of the Latino students in his school weren't as welcoming as he thought they'd be.

Immigrants

From Y-Press | Part of the Paris Immigrants series | 00:03:18

Recently, French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that elite schools reserve space for youth from poorer backgrounds. Most of the schools rejected this request, however, saying it would compromise their standards.

A Communicative Divide

From Michael Spikes | 00:06:24

Youth Voices producer Marjorie explores the rift left between herself and her extended family when a language barrier is realized. What's a kid to do when she needs a translator to talk with her own grandmother?

Finding a home in language

From MPR News Stations | Part of the MPR News' Youth Series series | 00:06:25

A Somali teenager describes what it's like to move to America speaking no English and manage to graduate from high school.

Father Returns To Mexico; Should Son Follow?

From Youth Radio | 00:03:41

Youth Radio's Luis Sierra describes his father's decision to return to Mexico after decades in the United States because of the economic crisis.

TRiO Fuels College Dreams

From MPR News Stations | Part of the MPR News' Youth Series series | 00:04:05

Profile of Tenzin Choerap, a Tibetan immigrant benefitting from a federal program that helps low income and first-generation students attend college.

To My Aunt, Who Crossed the Border

From Curie Youth Radio | 00:02:09

Elizabeth's aunt crossed from Mexico to the U.S. and had to leave her children behind.

Peculiar Privilege and the Elegy

From Youth Media Project | 00:07:44

Ece Ergadöz, a Turkish student at the United World College, explores her relationship with her mixed ethnic roots.

Trading One Tongue for the Other

From outLoud Radio | 00:03:02

A young Filipino-American's poem on growing up in many languages.

Party Chinese People

From Curie Youth Radio | 00:02:48

Immigration and assimilation from a teen perspective.

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