Focus
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Interview Archives: Immigration
Wednesday June 13, 2012, 11:06 AM
Showdown in the Sonoran Desert: Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy
Ananda Rose, Ph.D., Poet; Journalist
Host: David Inge
Categories: History • United States history • Immigration • Public Policy
Friday May 04, 2012, 10:06 AM
The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter
Gary Alan Fine, Ph,.D., John Evans Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, and Director of Graduate Student Affairs, Northwestern University
Host: David Inge
Northwestern University Sociologist Gary Alan Fine has been studying rumors for over 35 years. He began by looking at the ways rumors affected race relations and made it so difficult for blacks and whites to get together. In his more recent work, he has looked at rumors that deal with international politics. He says rumors provide access to what people believe and the beliefs they keep hidden. Fine will share some ideas from his book "The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration and Trade Matter."
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Categories: Immigration • Terrorism
Tuesday April 24, 2012, 10:06 AM
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Politics, Whitman College
Host: David Inge
Over the past century commercially baked white bread has been considered the height of modern progress and a symbol of America’s decline. How is it that one food could inspire so much love and so much disdain. On Focus we’ll explore the social history of white bread with Aaron Bobrow Strain. He teaches the politics of the global food system at Whitman College. He says that industrial white bread has played an incredibly important and largely unnoticed role in American politics, diet, culture and food reform movements.
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Gender issues • History • Immigration • Race/Ethnicity
Tuesday April 17, 2012, 11:06 AM
The Irish Way Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
James R. Barrett, Ph.D., Professor of History; Professor of African American History, History Department, University of Illinois
Host: Celeste Quinn
Historian James Barrett says America’s first ethnic group, its first immigrants, were the Irish. As such, they laid the foundation for the immigrants who followed. That foundation was at once hostile and welcoming. Barrett says, in the end, it led to a new sense of American identity that continues to influence today. James Barrett, author of "The Irish Way," joins us.
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Immigration
Wednesday June 22, 2011, 10:06 AM
“The Immigration Dilemma: The U.S. and Europe Compared”
Terri E. Givens, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Government Department, The University of Texas, Austin; Director of the Texas Language Roadmap
Host: David Inge
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Tuesday June 21, 2011, 11:06 AM
Immigration Issues
Tyche Hendricks, Journalist; Director of the Immigration Reporting Project, University of California, Berkeley; author of The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Peter Schrag, Journalist; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Governmental Studies, University of Carlifornia Berkeley; author of Not Fit for Our Society Immigration and Nativism in America
Host: David Inge
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Tuesday May 25, 2010, 11:06 AM
Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens
Lynne Christy Anderson, Adjunct Professor of English, Boston College and Bunker Hill Community College; 2008 Bread Loaf Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in nonfiction
Host: Celeste Quinn
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Categories: Cooking • Food • Immigration
Tuesday April 20, 2010, 10:06 AM
Grassroots Leadership Development for Asian Immigrant Women, Youth, and Their Families
Young Shin, J.D., Executive Director, Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, Oakland, California
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Community • Immigration • Labor/worker issues • organizational behavior
Tuesday March 30, 2010, 11:06 AM
The United States’ Current Immigration Quandary: How We Got Here, How We Resolve It
Peter Skerry, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Boston College and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Daniel Tichenor, Ph.D., Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Government • Immigration
Tuesday March 02, 2010, 10:06 AM
History Repeats Itself: East Central Illinois' Immigrant Populations
Deborah Hlavna, Ph.D., Co-Director, East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center, Urbana
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Assimilation • Community • Human Rights • Immigration
