Uprooted: A Grassroots Examination of the Politics of Migration is a new series about immigration from Deep Dish TV. Because we intend this project to be global in scope, this forum is a crucial step in organizing Deep Dish TV’s new Uprooted series.
This forum is a place where partners and collaborators can hash out potential ideas for the series, compile research, aggregate contacts and discuss best tactics and practices.

The series will broaden the discussion beyond the simplistic categories of “legal vs. illegal” immigration, aiming to systematically debunk the nativist mythologies that fuel the rhetorical engine of the right wing pundits and offer realistic, humane and hopeful insight. It will examine immigration from multiple perspectives, including and especially the perspective of immigrants themselves, empowering immigrant communities to become their own storytellers, and providing organizers within immigrant communities and their non-immigrant allies, with tools that will bolster their advocacy efforts.

Uprooted asks: What motivates people to leave home, family and the familiar to cross deserts, oceans and language barriers? What are the diverse experiences of contemporary immigrants seeking to establish roots in a new land? The issues surrounding immigration are indeed matters of human rights, but they are at root also issues of racism and economic exploitation.

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