My American Dream is Belonging with Prasanta Verma Ep. 65
OCT 1, 202426 MIN
My American Dream is Belonging with Prasanta Verma Ep. 65
OCT 1, 202426 MIN
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<p>Welcome to episode 65 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time!</p>
<p>Today’s guest is Prasanta Verma, the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/3XKORpz" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging</a>. In this episode, we talk about her family’s decision to move to the US. Prasanta shares that <a href="https://www.history.com/news/immigration-act-1965-changes" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965</a> allowed her father to come, but his original plan wasn’t to stay in the US. He was a physician who wanted to work in the US and bring back equipment to India to help their healthcare system better. </p>
<p>Prasanta also shares about growing up as the only Indian immigrant family in a small rural town in Alabama, visiting India for the first time after moving to the US, and the process of writing her first book! </p>
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