Feet In 2 Worlds: Home, Interrupted

About Feet In 2 Worlds: Home, Interrupted

A podcast telling the stories of today’s immigrants, including the impact of climate change, COVID-19, and elections on immigrant communities.

Publisher

Feet in 2 Worlds

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Feb 2012

Latest episode

8 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 116 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   A Maya Bonesetter in Brooklyn

   Host Danny Bloch interviews a Maya bonesetter in Brooklyn who shares his traditional healing knowledge adapted for his immigrant community.

2. 

   5 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Surveillance At Your Front Door

   Government agencies, law enforcement, and retail businesses are increasingly making use of surveillance technologies like license plate readers to monitor and track members of the public. While privacy rights advocates critique the way these institutions can abuse the data they’re collecting, some individuals opt to use these technologies in their own homes. Producer Ahmed Ashour explores the relationship between immigrants and consumer home surveillance devices like Ring cameras. Do immigrants feel that these technologies keep them safe? And how have attitudes towards these devices changed in recent years?

3. 

   12 Dec 2025

   The People Who Show Up: Inside a Community’s Effort to Respond to ICE Raids

   Today’s story comes from reporter Sophie Sleep with the Los Angeles Reporting Collective. What does it take to mobilize when ICE arrives? This story follows Proyecto Pastoral, an organization running one of L.A.’s rapid response networks in Boyle Heights, as volunteers learn how to respond to and confront the emotional toll of immigration enforcement. At the heart of it: a community trying to care for families — and for one another.

Inside a recent episode

A Maya Bonesetter in Brooklyn

Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It literally means to fix bones. In Spanish, this is often called a huesero, from the word for bone, hueso. In English, we might use the term bonesetter. Bonesetter. This room is where Juan practices healing. He's lost count of how many people he's helped since he came to New York five years ago. 250, he estimates. 300? Maybe more? Most are fellow Guatemalans like Romeo, who is Cachiquel Maya. Many come from other Maya communities, like the K'iche'. Juan also treats folks from Mexico and Ecuador. Like Guatemala, these countries have large indigenous populations both at home and in the diaspora. […]

Who has been a guest on Feet In 2 Worlds: Home, Interrupted

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Hannah Kirshner
• Mary
• Saba Waheed
• Jessica E Martinez

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.9 / 5

66 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

45

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

95

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