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"Where are you really from?" It's a simple question with a complicated answer. The Immigrant Perspective is a podcast dedicated to the voices of those who live between two worlds - exploring the nostalgia, the culture shock, and the triumphs of the migration journey. We move past the small talk and dive into the rich, messy tapestry of what it means to find home in a new land.
Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
50 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
Video podcast
English
United States
22 episodes
since March 12, 2026
episodic
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John Daly grew up in Bansha, a small farming village at the foot of the Galtee Mountains in County Tipperary. He is the second youngest of eight, raised largely by five older sisters, in a house his father, a trained blacksmith who later worked for the county council, had built onto with his own ha…
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Sergéy Ulyanov grew up in Minsk in a two-bedroom flat shared by six people: his mother, grandmother, grandfather, uncle, and great-grandmother. His grandmother worked as a secretary in the office of Belarus's president, and after school he would tag along, making crosswords and school presentations…
Ramsey Karim grew up in West London in a house where, in his words, migration, enterprise, faith, risk, and family loyalty all sat at the same table. His parents both arrived in Britain in 1973, and the family’s roots trace back to Aden. His father couldn’t read or write, but Ramsey remembers a man…
Anthea Taljaard was born in Durban, South Africa, and grew up traveling constantly. Her father packed the family into a caravan for nearly every holiday, instilling in her a lifelong comfort with the unfamiliar. She spent most of her adult life in South Africa, including her years in the small whal…
Lynda Charles grew up in northern Haiti, the daughter of a mother who "dreamt big" for her children despite having little formal education herself. Lynda knew she wanted to be a doctor from around age five, after a visit to her pediatrician, a memory she still carries word for word. She went on to …
Adriana Bialostozky's immigration story started a generation earlier, when her grandparents left Russia and Poland and landed in Mexico instead of the United States, because the doors here were closed. That layered history is the backdrop for a conversation about what it means to carry multiple hom…
Freangel Pacheco left Venezuela in 2015 after being threatened for protesting the government, and he hasn't seen his mother since. Eleven years later, his political asylum case is still pending. Freangel, a musician, personal trainer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, talks with Mary Lou about th…
Perry Constantine has three immigrant stories layered into one: his Greek grandfather fled political violence in Istanbul to bring the family back to Chicago; his British father emigrated through Canada; and Perry himself left Chicago for Japan in 2008 through the JET Program, expecting to stay a y…
Cathy met my wife Lois twenty-five years ago at a summer resort in Lois's Michigan hometown. They remained in touch and stayed close enough that Cathy flew back to the U.S. for our wedding, then eventually settled in the US herself with her husband Mark, who's also from England. In this episode, Ca…
At thirteen years old, Nigel de Leon left Cebu City, Philippines with his mom and a one-way trip to Alberta, Canada. In this episode, Nigel talks about the small, unexpected things that stuck with him most: the taste of the tap water, the radio station playing the night he landed, and his grandmoth…
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