Immersion journalism is a new word. The approach is not being just a bystander reporting hard facts but also being the part of the life of the subjects.
This was a really good account to read from a different journalistic approach. It tells the story of a Filipino family where a mother moves from a ghetto of Philippines to the US hospitals as a nurse. And how the whole family made the transition from a fragmented family (in different timezones) to a united family in US who ends up winning in their own sense of triumph.
Immigrants are the easiest target in a political game. They look different, and they are most vulnerable to any kind of attack be it physical or otherwise. More importantly, it is difficult for a lot of people to accept or even tolerate the people they don't understand because of the rhetoric they are served with, which alienates their own experience to a built-up image of immigrants. This is a long debate over the claim to nativity which stands on the very wrong grounds.
This is worth a read to get an idea of what an immigrants world and struggles look like.
Peace
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