In the third installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Shiu-Ming Cheer (she/her), Deputy Director of Programs & Campaigns at the California Immigrant Policy Center tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva, “This is the first time at the conference that there has been an AAPI-specific plenary, and I think in large part it was in response to the rise in anti-Asian violence over the last two years during COVID. And so it's interesting that it does take these moments of extremity when issues are highlighted much more in the public sphere and violence against Asians has been on the news pretty regularly for this topic to even seep into the consciousness of more immigrant rights organizations”.
In this episode, Shiu-Ming expands on her thoughts about how racial justice, white supremacy, and colonization all came together in a firestorm of events in 2021, and how the “extreme violence” has led to a collective awakening within the immigrant rights movement.
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Executive Producers: Hendel Leiva & Cheryl Cato Blakemore
Associate Producer: Kendy Solis
Produced in collaboration with the National Partnership For New Americans