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Far From Home: Stories of Forced Migration

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by Ameya Desai

5.0(23 reviews)
3 episodes
Updated Daily
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Podcast Overview

A new podcast exploring stories about forced migration as told by those who lived through it.

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Publishing Since

8/28/2024

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December 1, 2025

Shikata Ga Nai, Part II

In Part 2 of this 3-episode arc, Ameya explores how the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII affected multiple generations.   Ameya interviews Dr. Ken Shimizu, an orthodontist in Northern California whose parents were relocated to Heart Mountain Wyoming in the early 1940s, and how their experience informed his upbringing and cultural identity.

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May 1, 2025

Shikata Ga Nai

In this second award-winning episode, Ameya interviews Mrs. Linda Horikawa, a retired Japanese-American school teacher from San Jose whose family was relocated to the internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. *Grand Prize Winner of NPR’s 2025 Student Podcast Challenge, Middle School Category*

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August 28, 2024

Sugarcanes On My Mind

In her inaugural and award-winning episode, Ameya shares her grandfather's remarkable story of being one of many South Asians who was forcibly exiled from his homeland of Uganda in the 1970s during the brutal reign of President Idi Amin.    *Winner of NPR’s 2024 Student Podcast Challenge in the Fourth Grade Category*

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What is Far From Home: Stories of Forced Migration?

A new podcast exploring stories about forced migration as told by those who lived through it.

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This podcast updates daily.

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