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Immigrants and Refugees –LAS HIJAS (The Daughters) and LEAVING AFRICA

Season 2 Episode 202 | 26m 46s

New immigrants and refugees face steep challenges coming to the U.S. Rarely, though, do we hear candid conversations between immigrant kids and their families. In Las Hijas, filmmaker A. Pena de Niz crafts a deeply intimate portrait of first-generation daughters from Mexico while Rose Nseya (Leaving Africa) recounts the harrowing odyssey of fleeing one’s homeland in search of safer lives.

Aired: 04/14/23
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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