Far From Home: Stories of Forced Migration

About Far From Home: Stories of Forced Migration

Join Ameya Desai, a 2-time winner of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge (2024 and 2025), as she explores stories about forced migration as told by those who lived through it. Produced by Ameya Desai StoryVerse, LLC

Publisher

Ameya Desai

Category

education · history · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Aug 2024

Latest episode

1 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Dec 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.

2. 

   1 May 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*

3. 

   28 Aug 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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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

25 ratings

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