Ray Suarez ’s ‘We Are Home’ Centers Voices of Recent Immigrants

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the debate about immigration, the voices of immigrants are often left out of the conversation. For his new book, “We Are Home,” veteran journalist Ray Suarez collected a series of oral histories from people who have recently arrived in America. He centers immigrants like Samir, who was born in Kenya of Yemini descent and moved to suburban Maryland as a teenager and Nelson Castillo, a successful immigration attorney who never wanted to leave his native El Salvador. With this book, Suarez hopes that people will “listen to this person’s story of how they got here, how they got over, and how much they love their country today.” Suarez joins us to talk about not only why people immigrate, but who they are. Guests: Ray Suarez, journalist; author of "We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century, An Oral History" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.5	Ray Suarez is a long time and story journalist.
1:07.1	You've probably heard his voice on this very station.
1:10.3	Today we talk with him about his new book, We Are Home,
1:13.6	Becoming American in the 21st Century.
1:16.6	This is a rich survey of the immigrant experience at a time when immigration
1:20.6	has become as polarized as at any time in recent history.
1:25.6	For the book, Suarez talked with dozens of immigrants
1:28.5	about their real lives,
1:30.3	not the overheated imaginings of political figures
1:33.2	bent on using new arrivals to this country as political weapons.
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