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Latino USA

She Migrates

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Documentary

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In a new migration reality, women and children are requesting asylum in Mexico at higher rates than men. A look into what it’s like to migrate undocumented when you’re a woman, and the central role her body plays in transit.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Latino USA, the Radio Journal of News and Culture.

0:11.1

It's Latino USA.

0:12.0

It's Latino USA.

0:14.0

I'm Maria Inojosa.

0:15.0

We bring you stories that are underreported, but that matter to you.

0:20.0

Overlooked by the rest of the media.

0:21.1

And while the country is struggling to deal with these problems, we listen to the stories

0:24.3

of black and Latino students, a united Latino front, a cultural renaissance, organizing at the

0:30.5

forefront of the movement.

0:32.6

I'm Maria Inojosa.

0:34.3

No se bayon.

0:37.3

Hello, Latino USA listener.

0:39.6

Here's a show from the archives.

0:41.6

This one won the 2022 One World Media Award for Refugee Reporting.

0:46.8

So here's this award-winning episode.

0:51.0

Women tend to stay in small rooms that are rented, you know, not so much in the shelters

0:59.5

if they have the option. Women tend to try to get false documentation that will help them

1:06.6

get on buses or ride in cars or go around to checkpoints, walking, that kind of thing.

1:13.9

But in different routes than men would traditionally take.

1:18.7

You know, the women who I've talked to over the years, they absolutely are thinking about how to

1:25.0

protect their bodies, but also how to use their bodies to move through extremely difficult situations.

1:36.3

From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inoposa.

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