2.13: Teaching Our Children About Immigration

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Immigration is one of those things that we really struggle to agree on as a country. No matter your feelings or political leanings, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect and that is what we need to teach our children.

In this episode we talk to Abraham and Madison Carrasco, a multiethnic family who has gone through the immigration process. Abraham shares the intimate details of migrating from Mexico to the United States on foot. Both he and his wife Madison open up about the hardships that they faced over many years while Abraham interacted with the immigration system to become a citizen of the United States.

In addition, they share three strategies for talking to our children about immigration: read books about immigration, talk openly about culture, and humanize the issue.

Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode

Madison runs an instagram account called @reading.sinfronteras that promotes bilingualism, multicultural education, and anti-racism.

No Mas Muertes (No More Deaths), an organization that is working to “stop the deaths of migrants in the desert”

Song Credit: “Away” by Geographer and “Beach Disco” by Dougie Wood

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 2, Episode 13, teaching our children about immigration.
0:14.3	Welcome to First Name Basis, a community of parents committed to making the transformation from good intentions to confident action.
0:23.1	Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt comfortable asking.
0:28.7	We'll use the lessons we learned to teach our children about race, religion, and culture.
0:33.5	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.
0:48.5	Thank you. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw. Hello, First NameBases, fam. I am so glad you are here.
0:54.0	I'm really excited to share this episode with you and i know that i say this all the time
0:58.6	but this one is really special and really sacred today on the podcast we are going to hear from
1:05.1	abraham and madison karasco abraham immigrated to the united States from Mexico, and he did it all on foot.
1:15.4	And what I want you to know about his story is that he doesn't share it very often. I didn't
1:21.8	realize until the end of the episode that this is one of the very few times in his life that he has
1:27.2	gone into everything that
1:30.2	he went through when he was coming to America. I hope that as you listen, you will give Abraham
1:36.7	the time and the space to tell his story. The story is heavy and he has carried a lot of trauma in order to come to the United
1:48.9	States and seek better opportunities for his family. So please listen with an open heart and
1:56.4	reflect and think about the ancestors that you have who might have been on an immigration journey
2:04.0	to America. Unless you're an indigenous person or you are African American, you probably have
2:11.7	immigrants in your ancestry. So I hope that you can feel the power behind his story and understand what an
2:19.6	honor it is that he chose to share this story with us. His wife Madison says at one point in the
2:26.1	interview that we need to humanize the issue and that immediately made me think of the name of our
2:33.0	podcast, first name basis. The research shows that
2:37.0	as we get on a first name basis, as we humanize these issues with one another, we will be more
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