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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:05.2 | We often have stories on this programme about correspondence first impressions when they |
0:09.7 | arrive in a new country. Today we hear what it's like to go home again. |
0:15.6 | How a rape case and its aftermath have exposed deep-seated attitudes among police and others |
0:21.3 | in Cyprus, and the world boxing champion turned politician, now trying to prepare the |
0:27.2 | citizens of Ukraine's capital city for a possible Russian invasion. |
0:33.5 | First to perhaps the largest ongoing mass migration in the world. Every week, every month, thousands |
0:40.8 | of people are still turning up at Mexico's border with the United States, hoping to get |
0:46.0 | across. Of course it's not just Mexico itself they come from, these are migrants from |
0:51.7 | across Latin America, who head north in the hope of a better life. Some of fleeing violence |
0:58.4 | in their home countries, others simply want the chance of a job and some semblance of |
1:03.4 | financial security. The lucky ones make it into the US by hook or by crook, others as sent |
1:10.5 | back by the American border authorities or find their journey curtailed before they even |
1:16.2 | get there, their efforts wasted. But those who do successfully migrate also leave people |
1:22.7 | behind, the families and wider communities where they grew up. Guatemala, for example, has |
1:29.4 | a population of about 16 million, and some estimates suggest a million of these have left. |
1:36.7 | Megan Genetski has met some of the many people who've had to waive their relatives goodbye. |
1:43.0 | Moving through the western Guatemala and Highlands, you see connections to the United States |
1:47.4 | everywhere. It's a region that's been transformed by decades of migration. Our spot shops advertising |
1:54.0 | Ropa Americana or American clothes, including a floppy American flag hat, and I pass colorful |
1:59.8 | houses built almost exclusively from remittances, money sent home from relatives in the US. |
2:06.3 | But some effects of migration aren't so visible. I'm headed to a small town called Kahola, |
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